Quotes About Community

Two are better than one because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, one will lift up his companion. But woe to him who is alone when he falls, for he has no one to help lift him up.

ve kahin, "elektrik direklerini dikin," dedi, "zaman? gelince, çarm?ha gerilecek ?ehrin bütün suçlular?!" i?te bu kadar çok elektrik dire?i, bu yüzden vard?...

And so it's equally hard for them to comprehend how that smallness might desperately crave to be part of a we that promises greatness.

It's a funny fact about humanity: fear and pain, rather than courage and joy, are diminished when they are shared

It is one broken person talking to another broken person. And there is power in that.

You know, you asked me about our lives during the "Great Depression." None of us called it that then. It was just hard times.

Looking back, we were poor, but no one told us.

And the night that Chris Rock said, "Any time you find yourself on Martin Luther King Boulevard, get off.

To paraphrase a Latino saying (which is possibly ultimately from the Arabic traditiom), MI rasa is supposed raza." So Living in Spanglish is not a racial Istanbul text.

As a former high school teacher, I know that investing in education is one of the most important things we can do, not only for our children, but for the benefit of our whole community.

So I'm a young boy in the 1940s growing up, seeing Ralph Bunche on a regular basis, seeing Duke Ellington on a regular basis. We know that these people are famous. They're living in the same community as we live in. They go to the same stores and shops.

The Washington black community was able to succeed beyond his wildest dreams. I mean, we had our own newspapers, our own restaurants, our own theaters, our own small shops, our own clubs, our own Masonic lodges.

Consolidating power and merely delegating responsibilities are sufficient ways to maintain a single community, but they are terrible ways to exponentially reproduce Christian community. Movements occur only when the disempowered are given the freedom and responsibility to lead, along with the accountability to make it happen.

Just as the mighty sequoia would topple without a community of supporting trees, believers who seek transformation apart from a Christian community are vulnerable to spiritually topple in the winds of adversity.

Church leaders—including pastoral staff, elders, deacons, and leadership teams—must see community as a biblical nonnegotiable, an essential for transformation, a necessity for building lives that stand the test of time.

We need to stop presenting community as just another option for the religious consumer and start presenting it as God's will for everyone. It should be seen as the reality of those within the church and the refuge for those without.

It's time to live as people shaped by a gospel-centered worldview.

At the end of the day, in spite of the risks, do life with your people. They need to see you struggle and process your day-to-day walk with Christ. They need to see you desire community, and you need to see transformation take place among your community.

you cannot "save" a church without focusing on the important things that make it a church—scriptural authority, biblical leadership, teaching and preaching, ordinances, covenant community, and mission.

Community is essential when it comes to successfully living out the Christian walk in a day-to-day context. So the math is simple: More community = More disciples Understanding the nature of groups helps you

Belief followed by strategy and culture moves people to community.

God has made relationships His chosen delivery system for the gospel of hope.

You can preach heresy at a lot of churches, and people will not object. Leaders can lead double lives, and people will let it be. But, change the order of service, and it's time for a fight.

Missional churches act faithfully and intentionally wherever God gives them opportunity.