213: Koinonia – Become Good Soil Foundation Series (Part 8)

About this episode

This episode explores the concept of koinonia and its significance in building redemptive community against hyper-individualism.

“The Hebrew way to understand salvation is not to read a theological treatise but to sit around a campfire with family and friends, listening to a story. It is the very nature of storytelling to include us, the hearers, in the story… For salvation is not the spiritual diagnosis of souls, one here, one there. It is the story of a people. A community with a past, with ancestors, with common experience.” —Eugene Peterson, Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places In this next episode of the Become Good Soil Foundations Series, we invite you to pause and personally explore how koinonia—the heartbeat of the redemptive community modeled in the New Testament—might provide a clue for how we live counterculturally in a world deeply formed by hyper-individualism. In the film Defiance, we see a heroic picture of redemptive community. The Bielski brothers gather fleeing refugees in the forests of modern-day Belarus to escape the persecution of World War II. There in the woods, with only the essentials, a redemptive community is formed as they struggle to survive. When they host a wedding , it becomes a beautiful reminder that joy and sorrow coexist. (Links to the Defiance Trailer and Wedding Scene…

People in this episode

Host: Morgan Snyder

Topics covered

• koinonia
• redemptive community
• hyper-individualism
• storytelling
• fellowship
• New Testament

Keywords

• koinonia
• redemptive community
• storytelling
• New Testament
• fellowship
• hyper-individualism
• Acts
• Eugene Peterson

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places, Defiance, Defiance Trailer, Wedding Scene, Acts

Places: Belarus

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