Koinonia

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Holy Sepulchre, Round Church, Cambridge
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• We declare to you what we have seen and heard so
  that you also may have communion with us and
  truly our communion is with the Father and with
  his Son Jesus Christ. These things we write so
  that our joy may be complete.
• 1 John 13-4

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St John makes it clear that the communion of
life in the Church participates in the communion
which is the divine life itself, the life of the
Trinity. The Anglican Communion Covenant
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Andrei Rublev, Holy Trinity
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Tanja Butler, God comes to Dinner
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Koinonia in Phlippians

• Business partnerships
• Friendships
• Divine-human communion

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Koinonia of partnership

• 16 I always pray with joy because of your
  partnership in the gospel from the first day
  until now.
• 414-15 It was kind of you to share in my
  trouble. You Philippians yourselves know that in
  the beginning of the gospel, when I left
  Macedonia, no church entered into partnership
  with me in giving and receiving except you only.

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Phil.15
Partnership
414-15
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Partnership
Partner Paul (apostle)
Partner Church (donors)
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Patronage
Patron
Client
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God Founder Provider
Partner
Partner
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God

• Founder and Sustainer of community
• Phil. 16
• being confident of this, that he who began a
  good work in you will carry it on to completion.

• Provider for community
• Phil. 419
• My God will supply all your needs according to
  the riches of his glory in Christ Jesus.

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Koinonia of friendship

• 17-8 It is right for me to feel this way about
  you, since I have you in my heart . . . and you
  all share in Gods grace with me. For God is my
  witness how I long for you all with the affection
  of Christ Jesus.
• 41 my brothers and sisters, you whom I love and
  long for, my joy and crown, my dear friends

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Partnership 15, 414-15
Friendship Phil.17-8
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Friendship

1. Pleasure
2. Need
3. Virtue

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Philippians 411

• I am not saying this because I am in need, for I
  have learned to be content whatever the
  circumstances.

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Virtue Friendship

• Philippians 48
• Whatever is true
• Whatever is noble
• Whatever is right
• Whatever is pure
• Whatever is lovely
• Whatever is admirable
• If any excellence (a?et? virtue)
• If any praiseworthy
• Think about such things

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Soichi Watanabe, Reconciliation, 2010
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Koinonia of communion in the Spirit

• Philippians 21-2
• Therefore
• if you have any encouragement from being united
  with Christ,
• if any comfort from his love,
• if any koinonia in the Spirit,
• if any tenderness and compassion,
• then make my joy complete by being like-minded,
• having the same love,
• being one in spirit
• and of one mind.

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Salvador Dali, Last Supper
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Dalis true intention, which he has masterfully
accomplished in this painting, is to remind us
of what is occuring in every celebration of the
mystery of bread and wine that the worship here
on earth makes present the realities of worship
in heaven. The Real Presence of Christ means the
Real Presence of the Father. The COMMUNITY drawn
together in recognition of this miracle---the
Church--- shows the Real Presence of the Holy
Spirit, and where the Trinity is, is Heaven
unseen with our eyes, but sensed and recognized
in our prayer. Michael Anthony Novak,
Salvador Dali, The Sacrament of the Last Supper
A Theological Re-Assessment
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Koinonia of communion with Christ

• Philippians 310
• I want to know Christ
• to know the power of his resurrection
• and koinonia in his sufferings.

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Soichi Watanabe, Together with those who
weep, 2011
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Partnership
Friendship
Communion
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Caravaggio, Supper at Emmaus, 1601