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Session 6:
Fellowship

"For just as each of us has one body with many
members, and these members do not all have the
same function, so in Christ we, though many, form
one body, and each member belongs to all the
others." -Romans 12:4-5
The Greek word translated
"fellowship" is koinonia, and it
means communion, Former Prisoners
relationship, and sharing in Corrie ten Boom, who was
common. When the Greeks arrested for helping Jews
first used the word, it was to escape the Nazis, later
describe partnering in helped found a ministry to
business. help those who were
emotionally troubled by the
tragedies of the war.
Jesus-followers who are in
fellowship together serve one Each resident of the
another and others as well. program was required to
They become part of a loving raise vegetables in a small
community. plot of ground. Writing in
her book, The Hiding Place,
If you've had a hurtful ten Boom explains, "I could
experience in the context of a tell a patient was
local church, it may be holding recovering when they
you back from again risking began to give their
relationships in a church. You vegetables to others rather
may find yourselves than hoarding for
distrustful or fearful. themselves."

Pause now to tell your discipler
about that obstacle.
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