Quotes about Community

The Daniel Plan is a way of life, or as some have called it, a health-style that takes the guessing out of eating and cooking.

Jesus has not promised to build your ministry; he has promised to build his church.

Parachurch organizations and other Christian groups come and go, but the church will last for eternity. It is worth giving our lives for and it deserves our best.

The Christian life is more than just commitment to Christ; it includes a commitment to other Christians.

Fellowship is a place of grace, where mistakes aren't rubbed in but rubbed out.

The Bible tells us to speak the truth in love because we can't have community without candor. Solomon said, An honest answer is a sign of true friendship. Sometimes this means caring enough to lovingly confront one who is sinning or is being tempted to sin.

When the female voice is repressed and stifled, the entire community can easily find themselves cut off from the sacred feminine, depriving themselves of the full image of god.

Christian is a great noun and a poor adjective.

Churches and religious communities and organizations can claim to speak for God while at the same time actually being behind the movement of God that is continuing forward in the culture around them . . . without their participation.

Because when you can't hear the cry, when you stop caring for the widow, the orphan, and the refugee among you, it always leads to the diminishing of your empire.

The Bible tells a story. A story that isn't over. A story that is still being told. A story that we have a part to play in.

This participation is important, because Jesus and the prophets lived with an awareness that God has been looking for partners since the beginning, people who will take seriously their divine responsibility to care for the earth and each other in loving, sustainable ways.