Quotes about Community

Every time you make creative, interactive, and harmonious jazz with your Redeemer, whether in your home, friendships, community, church, or at work, while staying inside of his parameters, you are expanding what you touch to the size of God's kingdom.

Your leadership community is in trouble if your leaders are more excited about a strategic planning meeting than a prayer meeting.

We simply weren't constructed to live only for ourselves. We were placed on earth to be part of something bigger than the narrow borders of our own survival and our own little definition of happiness. The

So in grace, God has designed us to regularly gather together and remember the things that are worth living for.

The person next to you doesn't need the gospel more than you do; he just needs it differently than you do. All people sin and fall short.

Autonomous Christianity never works, because our spiritual life was designed by God to be a community project.

I am persuaded that the church today has many more consumers than committed participants.

The church is a community of unfinished people living in a broken world and still in need of God's forgiving and transforming grace. The church isn't meant, for either leaders or those being led, to be comfortable; it's meant to be personally transformational.

Corporate worship is designed to make you thankful, not just for possessions and accomplishments, but for what you've been given in Christ.

God didn't give us his grace in order to make our little claustrophobic kingdoms of one work, but to invite us to a much, much better kingdom.

We were meant to do more than make sure that all of our needs are fulfilled and all our desires are satisfied. We were never meant to be self-focused little kings ruling miniscule little kingdoms with a population of one.

People move from church to church as if the churches in their community are nothing more than ecclesiastical department stores. They're shopping for just the right preacher, women's ministry, youth ministry, or worship style. These Christians' relationship to the church mirrors my relationship to Macy's.