FELLOWSHIP DESCRIBED
. . . that which we have seen and heard we proclaim also to you, so that you may have fellowship with us; and our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ. 1 Jn. 1:3.
What is this fellowship and how can it be described? The following definition from 1 John 1. 1-4 gives some help.
Wuest in his Word Studies in the Greek New Testament describes this fellowship: "The word is koin
Çnia. Moulton and Milligan give instances of its use in the papyri in their Vocabulary of the Greek Testament, as follows: "belonging in common to, with whom I have no partnership." The idea in the word is that of one person having a joint-participation with another in something possessed in common by both. (the thing that is possessed is The Life of God). We can know God living as our Life!God sharing Himself and His Life with us as He actually lives it in and through us. His original design!