“For this reason, because I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love toward all the saints, I do not cease to give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers,” Ephesians 1:15-16 ESV Dear N500, you’ve got a love that’s steady as a rock and as constant as the river flow. You’ve got a heart that’s as big as the hands that you serve with. You’ve got a confidence that’s assured of yourself in Him and a swagger that none could match or replicate. Most of all, you’ve got each other, whose faith in Him and love for each other inspires me to see a new paradigm of how we “do church”. — “That’s the Greek word koinonia. It comes from the adjective koinos that means “common.” Koinonia bears witness to what we have in common and what we share as Christian men and women and young people. It bears witness to two complementary truths. First, koinonia expresses what we share in together, what we have received together, what we participate in together. That is the grace of God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. So the apostle John, at the beginning of his first letter, says, “Our fellowship [koinonia] is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ”… But koinonia also bears witness to what we share outward together—not only what we receive together, but what we give together.” — Thank you for being my koinonia. In 2019, let it grow deeper, wider, closer, stronger. 🌊 #thankeiw https://www.instagram.com/p/BrZHiQWHNqqIMTGYXsFUJXujsPnMxiWJsRSxFI0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1gpfi4bi4cd8e