Quotes about Community

When the people of God are not told the works of God, they lose the wonder of God, and everyone does that which is right in his or her own eyes.

So often, it's others around us who can see where God wants to grow us even before we see it ourselves.

In healthy churches, the pastors life, not just his words, sets the tone for the church.

The people sang to the Lord, not about Him.

Church was never intended to be a place where we serve God to the exclusion of meeting with Him.

Given the impossibility of not failing one another, when the Bible says, "We all stumble in many ways," the only way forward in loving community with one another is forgiveness.

Small groups are the place to push past Bible knowledge and on to life application so that we can see people's lives transform more and more into the image of Christ.

Every man needs a place to be open and vulnerable with brothers leaning together upon the Lord.

Do all you can to defeat selfish shepherding in your own heart.

Where is the church persevering in the priority of prayer?

Plain and simple, men need community with other men. Loving, you-before-me, dedicated relationship. If you have never had it, you don't really get it yet, and if you had that community and lost it, you know the cavity it leaves in your soul until you discover it again.

The satanic strategy of using lies to disguise, divide, and destroy. Let's focus on the middle word of Satan's plan to defeat you. The word is divide and his strategy is to get a wedge between you and men who can support God's work in your life through loving mutual community. As always he does this through lies.