The article discusses the biblical model of conflict resolution and the search for unity when encountering different cultures. It analyzes the Pauline understanding of the term κοινωνία, which appears in all great Paul's letters and plays a key role in Letter to Galatians in understanding the agreement that was made at the choir of the apostles in Jerusalem between Paul and Barnabas and the leading apostles of the Jerusalem Church (Gal 2,9). The Communion (κοινωνία) between believers and the Churches is based on the mutual recognition of the »truth of the Gospel«, which opens the way to all the people to join the communion of the people of God through faith in Jesus Christ. Beside the christological and ecclesiological connotation the term κοινωνία in the Letter to Galatians also gets ecumenical and ethical connotation and presents the model of the dynamic communion of the Church, which, despite different cultures and approaches, preserves unity and testifies to a new life in Christ conscious of its missionary and ecumenical mission.
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