"Get out of your country, from your kindred and from your father's house, to a land that I will show you. I will make you a great nation; I will bless you and make your name great; and you shall be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you; and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed." (Genesis 12:1-3) God called Abram …
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…Cor. 1:9; I John 1:3). This Greek word is used to describe not only our intimate relationships with our family and other believers, but also with God. The same word! It is out of the depths of our relationship with the Lord that we pursue koinonia with the people in our lives. So we see the whole gospel expressed in one word - koinonia - which is both "vertical" and "horizontal". We call it the "koinonia cross".