Quotes About Unity

America is not just a country. It's an idea.

The call is to do theology in loving community with other people.

For the church to be the church—not just a place where you can find ministry but where the people are a ministering community—every believer must accept his or her role in the life of every other believer.

One of God's sweetest gifts to us between the "already" of our conversion and the "not yet" of our homegoing is the gift of the body of Christ. God makes his invisible grace visible by sending people of grace to give grace to people who need grace. His people are meant to be the look on his face, the touch of his hand, the sound of his voice, the evidence of his love, the picture of his presence, and the visible demonstration of his faithfulness

Genesis 1—the only time in human history when there was no war of words. In Genesis 1, the world of communication was a world of peace, truth, and life. Words were never used as weapons. Truth was never used to tear down. Words were always spoken in love, and human communication never broke the bonds of peace.

It is only when the peace of God rules my heart that I can know real peace with you.

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 desire resides in each of us, and it is called transcendence. To transcend is to be part of something greater. We were created to be part of something so big, so glorious, so far beyond the ordinary that it would totally change the way we approach every ordinary thing in our lives.

God designed us to live in community, first with him and then with one another.

We were a Christian family in active participation in a vibrant church, but what we were involved in lacked one of the primary and essential ingredients of healthy New Testament Christianity: a trained, mobilized, and functioning body of Christ. It was Christianity devoid of Ephesians 4, 1 Corinthians 12, and Hebrews 3:12–13. For

The call is to do theology in loving community with other people. Truth not spoken in love ceases to be true because it's bent and twisted by other human agendas.

One way God establishes beauty is by putting things that are different next to each other.

Here it is: a marriage of love, unity, and understanding is not rooted in romance; it is rooted in worship.

We must all come to understand and accept the truth that our walks with God are community projects.

Corporate worship is designed to once again clear up our confusion as to what is truly important in life.

If Christ is the head of his body—and he is—then everything else is just body. The most influential pastor or ministry leader is a member of the body of Christ and therefore needs what the other members of the body need.

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.

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

He has invaded your marriage with his powerful love and transforming grace.

The reconciliation of a marriage must be a lifestyle, not just the response you have when things go bad. Consider

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.

But when you begin to celebrate the sovereignty of God and how he formed you and brought you and your spouse together for his glory and your good, you quit being irritated by your differences and start celebrating how your life has been enhanced by them. As a result, you will not only give room to your spouse's sensibilities, but you will honor him or her in what you do and say in the moments when you are confronted with the differences in your approach to the very same things.

The most relaxing word in our vocabulary is 'we'. Imagine being able to say 'we'. Most people are in no position to say 'we'.