I'm currently reading Where Do We Go From Here by David Jeremiah. In it, Jeremiah speaks about he word fellowship in Ephesians 5:11. It is translated from the Greek word sunkoinoneo. The last part of the word means fellowship, but the prefix sun, is the Greek word for with. It means participating with someone in doing something. This verse tells us that once we become a child of the light, we can not longer participate with those who are doing the works of darkness.
It doesn't mean we reject those people, or stop loving them, or cut them from our lives. It means we no longer participate with them in things that are unworthy of our walk with Christ. We are still in the world, but we are no longer of the world.
That is a really difficult place to be isn't it? In the world but not of the world. We still love some people, we continue to have them in our lives, but we have to watch what we do with them. It's like a fence we straddle in this world. Jesus said, "Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore be as wise as serpents and as harmless as doves. Matt. 10:16. It's not always easy to stay on the fence, we lean to one side or another from time to time. Sometimes we fall off. Okay, many times we fall off, and when we do the are wolves waiting for us!
`Ephesians 5:8-12
For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light (for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness and truth) and find out what pleases the Lord. Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them. It is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret. But everything exposed by the light becomes visible—and everything that is illuminated becomes a light.
