Words in our language today are often used in many different ways to mean many different things. For example, if one says he was “dunked” in water, it might mean someone put him under water playing a water game with him, or it could mean he was baptized for the remission of sins – Acts 2:38.
The word FELLOWSHIP is found about 13 times in most Bibles, but it varies a little depending on the translation you use. The Greek word translated fellowship (koinonia) is found 20 times and actually, another similar Greek word found several times is translated “fellowship” once. Our less is, what does the word “FELLOWSHIP” mean in the Bible we read? Bible usage determines meanings. I Peter 4:11 states, “If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God…” Old time preachers in the churches of Christ have often said, “We speak where the Bible speaks, and we are silent where the Bible is silent.” We need Bible for all the church does, for our religious standard and for our moral conduct. Below are all the places and ways the word fellowship is used in the Bible.
Truth In Love, Vol 6, No. 7 ; July 2013 |
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