Sentences with word «koinonia»

Robert Raines describes the operation of koinonia groups in his church.

In this earliest Christian teaching on liturgical participation, the word koinonia which St Paul uses can also be translated quite properly as «communion».

The Willingen Conference (1952) added «the notion of «witness», martyria, as the overarching concept,» saying «This witness is given by proclamation [kerygma], fellowship [koinonia], and service [diakonia].»

The missionary Paul did not go about organizing koinonia for the purpose of facilitating the cross-fertilization of cultures, desirable as that would have been in itself.

And said that this was genuine koinonia.

The New Testament koinonia will be enhanced, while the ethos of each communion will continue to enrich the others.

Many churches are forming koinonia groups.

New groups are led by carefully trained laymen with previous koinonia group experience.

In the space of a couple of verses, Luke speaks first of the believers» devotion to koinonia expressed in common meals (Acts 2:42) and then of their determination to hold goods in common (koinon, 2:44).

Living in common housing and sharing common meals provide the occasion for whatever koinonia will be known.

In my first parish in Cleveland I explored koinonia groups and went frequently to Shadybrook House, a retreat center outside the city.

Let it suffice to recall such New Testament words as Adam [anthropos], sarx, and kosmos, on the one hand, and ekklesia and koinonia on the other.

Communication must be understood as cultural koinonia, in which all the cultures interact creatively to enrich and fulfill each other.

We discovered that Sunday mornings were completely insufficient to create anything close to what the Bible describes as koinonia.

Chapter Four, «Receiving the Lord and Sent Forth to Serve», notes that «the English word «communion» [comes from] the Greek koinonia,» — a unity in fellowship.

At Pentecost, people of diverse cultures all spoke and heard the message of God in their own languages, and this event marked the creation of new koinonia (PARTICIPATION), new household (OIKONOMIA), new identity as a people of God (NEW CULTURE), and new community (NEW SOLIDARITY).

Christian coqunity as the Gardener of Life of justice and Shalom Christioan coqunity as the ecumenical movment for justice, peace and integrity of creation is a movement to garden the justice, koinonia and shalom in the universe.

It is the oppression of the Tower of the Babel in the center of the jungle that has been overthrown by the act of the Holy Spirit to create coqunion (koinonia) and coqunication.

Now the technocracy should be consceived as a creative work to garden the justice, koinonia and shalom in the universe as God has created and been creating.

This was what that Greek word for community, koinonia, literally looks like, what it literally means: a pouring out and a pouring into.

Much has been made of the koinonia or fellowship of the Lord's Supper (I Cor.

«As we respond to these developments let us resolve to uphold each other in mutual prayer and to do all we can to strengthen the koinonia we share as bishops of the Anglican Church of Australia.»

Today most will recognize that the church as the koinonia in Christ transcends different cultures and takes roots in each, redeeming and reinterpreting indigenous cultural thought - forms and life - forms and values to make them the language of communication of Christian faith and ethics.

At the Whitby meeting of the IMC (1947) and the following years, the terms kerygma, koinonia, and diakonia were used to define the understanding of mission.

Discipleship, not just self - control; koinonia.

How can the churches meet and dialogue on their brave commitments to koinonia and the unity they seek, without facing up to the fragmentation of the community of women and men?

For example, a small group in which persons experience something of the koinonia quality of relationships will awaken Christian discipleship more effectively than many lecture sessions on the topic.

In fact, experiments like the koinonia groups suggest that an inspirational aspect may facilitate the process of self - discovery in certain people by providing a sense of support and safety.

The life of a single parish stands for the ultimate fellowship, the koinonia, that all people will have among themselves and with their God.

Because God exists as koinonia, a communion between the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, the Father gives himself in the Son and the Son gives him self in the Holy Spirit.

The Greek word for communion or fellowship is koinonia.

It is in their specific context that they have to perform the threefold ecclesiatical tasks: koinonia, marturia and diakonia, wholeheartedly and responsibly.

The dividing walls of hostility are being broken down; forgiveness and mutuality are being learned; reconciliation and koinonia are being experienced as real possibilities and not mere ideals.

Today the traditional and classical marks of the church — kerygma (worship and proclamation), didache (teaching), koinonia (community and fellowship) and diakonia (service)-- must take precedence.

The well - known Greek word for «fellowship» or «communion» is koinonia, from koinon, which means «common.»