koinonia

Luke says it plainly: after Pentecost, the community was of one heart and one soul.
Not because they had resolved their differences. Not because they had become identical. But because the same Spirit who had taken up dwelling in each of them was simultaneously inhabiting all of them.
Cyril of Alexandria: Christ’s prayer “that they may be one as we are one” is not a prayer for institutional coherence. It is a prayer for theotic unity — that the same divine life circulating between Father and Son might circulate among believers through the indwelling Spirit.
Koinonia is not fellowship. It is participation in divine life, shared outward.
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