Barry D. Jones

“Koinonia is often translated by the word “fellowship,” but that is too thin a word for many of us (especially those with memories of bad potluck dinners in the fellowship hall). Koinonia is a rich word that refers to shared life lived in intimate community. It is sharing one another’s joys and burdens. It is walking together in the details of daily life. Apart from a deep experience of koinonia, our corporate worship gathering too easily devolves into a kind of individual spectator experience that we all happen to have in the same time and place week after week.”
― Barry D Jones, Dwell: Life with God for the World

“But to be reminded that human beings are created to worship God also involves being reminded that proper worship entails a certain kind of life. Our identity entails a vocation, a calling, to represent the reign of God. To be made in the image of God is not so much a property of our humanity as it is a task, a mission.”
― Barry D Jones, Dwell: Life with God for the World