WILDFIRE WORD: Why Co.: one bread

“For we, though many, are one bread and one body; for we all partake of that one bread.”

1 Corinthians 10:17 NKJV

Co. is short for company, and company is an old word with bread inside it. It comes from the Latin com, together, and panis, bread. A companion is someone you share bread with. A company is a table full of them.

That is the picture we wanted. We are not a church and we are not a denomination. We are a company of believers from every part of the Body, gathered around one table and one Lord.

Think of the two disciples on the road to Emmaus. Jesus walked beside them for miles and opened the Scriptures, and still they did not recognize Him. Then He sat at their table, took the bread, blessed it and broke it, and their eyes were opened. Later they told the others how “He was known to them in the breaking of bread” (Luke 24:35).

Discipleship happens at tables. Over coffee, over a meal, over an open Bible on the kitchen counter. That is where we want to meet you.

Let His Word spread like wildfire

It starts with the fire He kindles in you. Today, invite someone to share a meal or a coffee with you this week, and ask how they are really doing.

Stay close to Jesus, Wildfires.

Scripture quotations marked NKJV are taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.