{"id":17331,"date":"2024-11-19T17:39:42","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T17:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwc-cmm.org\/en\/resources\/koinonia-the-gift-we-hold-together\/"},"modified":"2025-02-05T18:02:32","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T18:02:32","slug":"koinonia-gift-we-hold-together","status":"publish","type":"mwcresource","link":"https:\/\/mwc-cmm.org\/en\/resources\/koinonia-gift-we-hold-together\/","title":{"rendered":"Koinonia \u2013 The Gift We Hold Together"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading is-style-yellow-eyebrow\">A teaching resource from the Faith and Life Commission<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><em>What does it mean for member churches of Mennonite World Conference to share an Anabaptist identity? What is the value of Anabaptist \u201ctradition\u201d \u2013 and what does that word mean in a global context? What are our Anabaptist understandings of mission and fellowship?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><em>In 2009, 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:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"has-small-font-size\"><em>\u201cA Holistic Understanding of Fellowship, Worship, Service, and Witness from an Anabaptist Perspective\u201d by Alfred Neufeld Friesen of Paraguay;<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-small-font-size\"><em>\u201cThe \u2018Anabaptist Tradition\u2019 \u2013 Reclaiming its Gifts, Heeding its Weaknesses\u201d by Hanspeter Jecker of Switzerland; and<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-small-font-size\"><em>\u201cKoinonia \u2013 The Gift We Hold Together\u201d by Tom Yoder Neufeld of Canada.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><em>All three papers were approved as a teaching resource by the MWC General Council in May 2012.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>The word <em>koinonia <\/em>has rightly become a central term and concept for Mennonite World Conference. In addresses, publications and programmatic efforts, leaders have been nudging the global Anabaptist community to a deeper relationship with each other. Even when we don\u2019t use the word <em>koinonia <\/em>itself, much of the terminology we use depends on it: meeting needs, mutual encouragement, gift giving and receiving, fellowship, interdependence, solidarity, consensus, communion, community, unity, being \u201ctogether\u201d\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/mwc-cmm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/teaching_resource_tomyn_en.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of teaching_resource_tomyn_en.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-5f7fb043-5cda-4019-8f3e-aedfb38089fb\" href=\"https:\/\/mwc-cmm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/teaching_resource_tomyn_en.pdf\">teaching_resource_tomyn_en<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/mwc-cmm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/teaching_resource_tomyn_en.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-5f7fb043-5cda-4019-8f3e-aedfb38089fb\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-yellow-background-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/mwc-cmm.org\/en\/commissions\/faith-and-life-commission\/\">Faith &amp; Life Commission<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","network":[360,155,352],"resourcetype":[],"language":[165,167],"resourcecategory":[314,157],"resourcetheme":[311,328],"eventcategory":[],"class_list":["post-17331","mwcresource","type-mwcresource","status-publish","hentry","network-commissions","network-faith-and-life-commission","network-general-council","language-en","language-fr","resourcecategory-reference-document","resourcecategory-teaching-resource","resourcetheme-theology","resourcetheme-unity"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Koinonia \u2013 The Gift We Hold Together - Mennonite World Conference<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/mwc-cmm.org\/en\/resources\/koinonia-gift-we-hold-together\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Koinonia \u2013 The Gift We Hold Together - Mennonite World Conference\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A teaching resource from the Faith and Life Commission The word koinonia has rightly become a central term and concept for Mennonite World Conference. 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