Gluten Free & God Seeking: The Fellowship of the Believers in 1 Corinthians 1:9

Sunday, February 10, 2013

The Fellowship of the Believers in 1 Corinthians 1:9

Do you know how fast your blood circulates? A few years ago I saw these amazing facts from my husband's work newsletter. I cut them out and put them in my journal for that year. And here they are:

Every day your heart pumps 2,100 gallons for blood through 60,000 miles of blood vessels.
It takes 24 seconds for a drop of blood to circulate through your body and return to your heart.
To make all this happen, your heart beats over 100,000 times a day when you're resting.
During exercise a well trained heart can pump several times its resting output.

I thought about all these facts as I was reading Chapter 14 in the Life-Study of 1 Corinthians because Witness Lee compares the circulation in the Body of Christ to the circulation in our human body. This has fascinated me because it shows how real the connection is between all the members of the Lord's Body on this earth. This is from pages 124-125:

I doubt that there is in any language an equivalent for the Greek word for fellowship, koinonia. This word implies oneness and also a mutual flowing among the believers. When we enjoy fellowship with one another, there is a flowing among us...Perhaps the best illustration of fellowship is the circulation of blood in the human body. In a very short period of time the blood makes one complete circuit. Life depends on this circulation. Just as there is the circulation of blood in the human body, so there is a spiritual circulation, called the fellowship, in the Body of Christ (Lee, Witness. Life- Study of 1 Corinthians. Anaheim: Living Stream Ministry, 1981, Print).

I like that these messages underscore again and again how God has called us into the fellowship of His Son, and this fellowship unites all the believers together. What an inspiring picture!

Here's a link so you can listen to any of the programs on the Life Study of the Bible with Witness Lee that are on the book of 1 Corinthians and 2 Corinthians.