Quotes about Community

Here is a community goal: to be able to identify one pattern of sin in our lives.

The visitor (what Scripture calls the "foreigner" or "alien") comes first. The visitor who returns comes next. The less popular, the introverts, the marginalized, or those sitting alone come next. Then come the children. Jesus singles them out as examples of the marginalized. "Hi, _______" is offered to as many people as possible, which doesn't have to be accompanied by a hug or a handshake.

Knowing and being known—by design we enjoy human connections, and those connections are forged over time through normal interactions and questions that gradually ask for more. Such connections are the foundations for mutual help, and they are helpful in themselves since they are expressions of love.

You can probably identify your friends' gifts rather quickly

When we recount with our community God's answers to our prayers, we are laying spiritual monuments that we hope will have more endurance than mere stones.

Need theories can thrive only in a context where the emphasis is on the individual rather than the community and where consumption is a way of life.

Need theories can thrive only in a context where the emphasis is on the individual rather than the community and where consumption is a way of life.

Worship often takes our attention off ourselves completely. It isn't necessary to relate our worship of God to what he has done for us. God is great and worthy of our worship regardless of what he has done for us! Yet, having blessed the name of the Lord together, it strengthens our faith to remember what God has done for us, and also to hear what God is doing in other people.

Imagine how aloneness could gradually be banished.

Once we pray with or for someone, we are in the ongoing story of his life, and it is an honor to be there.

Most gifts emerge in the context of serving people.

You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.