Jan 19 2008
koinonia 2
One of my most enjoyable roles on staff is the opportunity I have to work with the young adults at Mountain. I was particularly mindful of this in light of the sermon at Mountain last Sunday on koinonia. This Greek word that describes the deep fellowship that Christians are called to enjoy is one of the hallmarks of Mountain’s young adult community.
Our kickoff meeting was last night. It was great. We had 11 new people, and I can already tell that this will be a place where people will form relationships that matter. My boys came with me and so I wasn’t able to hang out as much as I would have liked but I had two people come up afterward and give me heartfelt thanks because they were desperate to connect with others their age and had been unable to do that until last night.
After the meeting, I talked late into the night with one of our new leaders who is on fire for fostering kiononia with his peers at Mountain. He must have told me a dozen times variations on, “Ethan, so many of my friends has totally lost connection with the church.” He knows that without koinonia, Christians wither.
All in all it was a good Friday night. Not only did we get to have a great time, we got to live out the sermon from the previous Sunday.
on the walk
-Ethan
