A cartoon, in a Saturday Evening Review, features a young boy sitting under a tree taking inventory of his relationships. “So far, I have 14 people who love me, 22 people who like me, six people who tolerate me, and I have only three enemies. I’d say that’s not bad for a little kid.”

When it comes to relationships, how are you doing? We are made for community; we will never be satisfied to be self-reliant. We need one another. The friendships in the fellowship of the first century Church were so focused and spiritually formative they coined a word for it. They called it koinonia – the fellowship of kindred minds working together, sharing the loads of life while reaching out to others. Let us take a look today at the fellowship of Christians at Philippi, Paul’s first established church on …