Quotes About Community

The Christian community first came up with theological abstractions because eventually we had to speak in shorthand about the complexity of God's story and character, or we'd never get anywhere in regular discourse with one another.

let's get our semantics straight. Story does not equal fiction, much less "lies." It's the world we Christians inhabit as "people of the Book." We are story people. All

From ancient times discipleship training has involved learning the biblical narrative and theological language of the Christian community:

Ministry with young people—in fact, ministry with anybody—intrinsically relies on imagination to vividly and compellingly invite others into God's presence.

be fully immersed in the baptismal waters of the Christian faith takes the entire pool of the worshiping community.

every church can treat each discipleship class and each worship service as an opportunity for continual rehearsal of what the words, stories, symbols, rituals, and experiences in the Christian community mean.

Our songs and our stories do more than persuade others that an order exists: they build the house; they weave a world; they companion our listeners into the experience of such ordered cosmos. —WALTER WANGERIN JR

Writes Native American storyteller Ray Buckley: A child relates storytelling . . . to human contact, and that contact becomes as much a part of the story as the story itself. As adults, we experience storytelling in much the same fashion. Isn't it interesting that in many cultures, storytelling is viewed as a form of touch?7

The theatre is the involuntary reflex of the ideas of the crowd.

Maybe I can find a place here, even with being different. «Look around,» Pixit said. «You already have one.»

If something is going on, I hear about it. I like to talk to people, I socialise. Television is a waste of time. Human contact is what matters.

I live in a neighborhood that's very family-oriented, so I feel like everyone else is sleeping and I'm sitting up, making music. It's just me. It's a nice time to be creative.

Christmas and the holidays are the season of giving. It's a time when people are more kind and open-hearted.

The Internet changes the structure of society all the time — this massiveness made of individuals.

I want to be around when Newcastle win a trophy because I want to see this place lift off. It will be one hell of a party for a long time.

And realizing there is no such thing as the Black experience. Time and events allow for change on both sides.

Crowdfunding as an idea itself isn't new - bands have been doing it since the dawn of time.

If you're not looking forward to church this morning perhaps it's time to look for a church.

I enjoy spending time with other awakened people and feeling the shared vibration of that, whereas just fun for its own sake might no longer be quite so enticing as it used to be.

Instead of convincing people who are opposed to your message, spend your time finding people who are already predisposed to it.

Making choices that improve things for all of us on the planet is an act of compassion, a simple act we can do any time we go shopping.

Farmers only worry during the growing season, but townspeople worry all the time.

That past is still within our living memory, a time when neighbour helped neighbour, sharing what little they had out of necessity, as well as decency.

I think if Jesus came for the first time, and he was 33 1/2 years old and hung out with these guys, where would he be? They'd probably be at a coffee bar getting a latte or something.