Quotes about Belonging

If you followed the Lord for a thousand years, you would still need the ministry of the body of Christ as much as you did the day you first believed.

Corporate worship is designed to remind you of your identity in Christ so that you won't waste your time looking for identity elsewhere.

No self-acceptance is possible if one is not accepted in a person-to-person relation.

It's more important to know whom you are called to be with than what you are called to do.

These two laws in particular were central to Jewish identity in Paul's day. They had become social badges of honor to distinguish Jews from Gentiles, something concrete to hang on to amid the persistent religious chaos introduced by centuries of Greek and Roman ways. That's why I wear my Yankees jersey in Phillies country. I do it, at great risk to myself, to let the world—the world, mind you—know that I am different. I belong to another tribe. I am special.

“Consecrate to Me every firstborn male. The firstborn from every womb among the Israelites belongs to Me, both of man and beast.”

The first offspring of every womb belongs to Me, including all the firstborn males among your livestock, whether cattle or sheep.

Now the son of an Israelite mother and an Egyptian father went out among the Israelites, and a fight broke out in the camp between him and an Israelite.

from Asher, Pagiel son of Ocran;

Every devoted thing in Israel belongs to you.

And their meat belongs to you, just as the breast and right thigh of the wave offering belong to you.

All Israel will mourn for him and bury him. For this is the only one belonging to Jeroboam who will receive a proper burial, because only in him has the LORD, the God of Israel, found any good in the house of Jeroboam.