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6 Exploring Roots, Pursuing Mission 28 Each Other General Council 2012 General Council 2012 courrier correo 2012 / 2 &3 www.mwc-cmm.org courier Conférence Mennonite Mondiale Mennonite World Conference Congreso Mundial Menonita Koinonia—the gift we hold 2 together The leadership 4 model of Jesus Four Commissions, 11 one heartbeat Service and mission 14 networks join hands Cradling Anabaptism in 16 Europe today People and 26 faces of MWC Praying for 6 Exploring roots, pursuing mission 28 each other General Council 2012 General Council 2012 Koinonia —the gift we hold together Thomas R. Yoder Neufeld Photo by Merle Good What does it mean for member churches of Rebecca Osiro of Kenya shares a chuckle with Linda Shelley of the United Mennonite World Conference to share an Anabaptist States at the May General Council sesssions in Switzerland. Shelley was identity? What is the value of Anabaptist “tradi- one of 30 volunteer and staff interpreters who made the sessions tion”—and what does that word mean in a global accessible in French, Spanish and Portuguese. context? What are our Anabaptist understandings of mission and fellowship? Three years ago, the newly appointed Faith and Life Commission was asked to produce three papers that could be used in helping MWC communities reflect on such questions. The papers were presented to the MWC General Council in May (see pages 6–12 for reports): “A Holistic Understanding of Fellowship, Worship, Service, and Witness from an Anabaptist Perspective” by Alfred Neufeld Friesen of Paraguay; “Revisiting Our Vision: The Anabaptist Vision,” by Hanspeter Jecker of Switzerland; and “Koinonia — The Gift We Hold Together” by Tom Yoder Neufeld of Canada. The papers are being edited into a final form as teaching resource. Beginning with this issue, we share them in Courier-Correo- Courrier. The following is an excerpt of Yoder Neufeld’s paper. he word koinonia has rightly As used in the Greek New Testament, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit (John 17; become a central term and concept koinonia and its immediate family of terms Philippians 2). The most material and for Mennonite World Conference. do not lend themselves to precise definition. the most spiritual dimensions are TIn addresses, publications and Sometimes their meanings are very ordinary, celebrated in “communion,” the Lord’s programmatic efforts, leaders have been other times profound to the point of Supper (1 Corinthians 10, 11).* nudging the global Anabaptist community mystery. Together, however, these meanings Koinonia is the biblical name we give to to a deeper relationship with each other. take on force and depth in shaping our the loftiest and the same time the most Even when we don’t use the word koinonia calling to be a community of faith. ordinary and practical of concepts. It is itself, much of the terminology we use The range of meanings extends from found in the nature of the koinonia God depends on it: meeting needs, mutual koinos (ordinary, profane; Acts 10, 11) to gives us, in the incarnation of the Son, and encouragement, gift giving and receiving, koinonia as “sharing” and “partnership,” in the blowing of God’s Spirit. Yet the fellowship, interdependence, solidarity, whether in labour or money (Philippians, most profound dimensions of koinonia are consensus, communion, community, unity, 2 Corinthians 8, 9, Romans 15), and to to be found in the utterly ordinary exercise being “together.” “solidarity” with each other in times of of it in our communion with God and in need (Romans12:13). Going far beyond the body of Christ. Koinonia is an Cover: Thioro Bananzoro of our ability to comprehend, we are invited identity-giving, life-shaping, commitment- Burkina Faso and Marsha to participate in the koinonia of the forging, and action-provoking gift of God. Ragoonath from Trinidad and Tobago pray together before Courier / Correo / Courrier (ISSN 1041-4436) is published quarterly by Mennonite World Con fer- Courier, 1251 Virginia communion at the conclusion of the Avenue, Harrisonburg VA 22802-2434 USA. Periodical postage paid at Harrisonburg VA. MWC General Council meetings. Printed in USA. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Courier, 1251 Virginia Avenue, Photo by Merle Good Harrisonburg VA 22802 2 courrier - courier - correo General Council 2012 We receive it with Christ standing among the question. Paul recognizes us and his Spirit enabling us to both that these issues are a test of receive and exercise this gift. the koinonia of believers with God and each other. He insists Koinonia in MWC: that Roman believers not Photo by Merle Good violate each other’s efforts at both reality and goal faithfulness. They must find a In a 2010 article entitled “Diversity: way, precisely as those whom Blessing, curse, or call to communion?” God has welcomed, who Larry Miller correctly identified it as the together share one Lord reality undergirding our life together, (14:1-6; 15:7)—to grant each but also as a goal toward which we are other such space and freedom. moving. While the specific terminology of koinonia is not employed by Pakisa Diversity: the Tshimika and Tim Lind in their Sharing Gifts in the Global Family of Faith, it is noisy place of new clear that “global gift sharing” perfectly creation captures many of the dimensions of Such mutual respect and koinonia, not least in locating its ground freedom shows the strength of and origin in God’s own gift sharing. koinonia. Those granting each Similarly the seven “Shared Convictions” other such space remain firmly and Alfred Neufeld Friesen’s tethered to each other in the commentary on them, resonate well with “chains of peace” (Ephesians what we have discovered about koinonia 4:3; cf. Romans 14:17-19), not in the New Testament. Tom Yoder Neufeld presents his paper at the recent because of their resolve, but At the same time, the International General Council meetings in Switzerland. because of God’s. We might Planning Commission of the MWC respect without distancing ourselves think that true koinonia might identified “autonomy” as one of the given beyond the reach of counsel and lessen differences that can bring conflict. realities of the MWC community of exhortation. Instead, it opens even more space for churches. It is in fact one of the criteria for In Romans 14:1–15:13 Paul addresses differences. Indeed, it is driven by a “desire membership in the MWC. As I see it, a vexing set of issues in the circle of for difference” as a gift from God to the koinonia and autonomy are in considerable house churches in Rome, made up of community of faith. tension. “Autonomy” implies independence observant Jews and not so observant Since the koinonia of the gospel invites rather than interdependence. That is likely Gentiles. Should one eat meat? Should and embraces strangers (Romans 12:13) not the intention behind the use of the one observe special days? These issues and enemies (Matthew 5:43), this space term in MWC. But in MWC history, the were at least as troubling to early must be expected to be the noisy and insistence on autonomy has sometimes believers as any doctrinal or ethical issues often conflictual place of new creation. reflected the desire not to have the search we face. What New challenges to for unity compromise our own efforts at made the issues so Mennonite World Conference is unity will arise; new faithfulness. difficult is that strains will put on the Larry Miller called for “autonomy-in- called to be a communion (koinonia) they were of Anabaptist-related churches linked chains of peace communion,” clearly wishing nevertheless competing visions precisely because the to move “beyond autonomy into to one another in a worldwide and practices of community of faith for fellowship, Spirit will sometimes communion-in-diversity.” Might our holiness and disturb “fellowship.” study of koinonia nudge us to speak less worship, service, and witness. worship. How do —The MWC vision as articulated and True koinonia is of autonomy, independence and self- you compromise always of the Spirit, determination, and more of granting approved by the General Council in on faithfulness? Bulawayo in 2003. the wind of God that each other the space to be as diversely Interestingly, blows where it wills. and distinctly and uniquely faithful as Paul never settles Such an possible? This is a koinonia-space where the question of who is strong and who is understanding informs our relations to the walls are thin, the windows and weak, whether meat should be eaten or the global body of Christ, where we are doors are open, the conversations are special days observed. He does insist that coming to value the differences that our overheard, maybe even interrupted, nothing is koinon (unclean, profane) of histories and our diverse experiences of where we grant each other profound itself (14:14). But even that hardly settles faithfulness and unfaithfulness have Note: Yoder Neufeld’s full paper explores in greater depth the meaning of the terms associated with koinonia in the New Testament, laying the groundwork for the reflections excerpted here. Once finalized by the Faith and Life Commission, the full paper will be posted at www.mwc-cmm.org or available at MWC offices. For now, an edited version of the initial draft of the paper is available in English in the July 2012 issue of Mennonite !uarterly Review (www.goshen.edu/mqr). 2012 - 2 & 3 3 General Council 2012 brought about. This appreciation recognizes that we belong to each other by an act of God, and that koinonia is a mix of listening, appreciating, exhorting, critiquing, dialoguing—all in the interests The leadership of growing closer to each other within the koinonia of God. A body made up of “all things in model of Jesus heaven and on earth” (Ephesians 1:10) is not designed to be one of uniformity, but By César García of God-created diversity.
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