Quotes About Community

Are you satisfied with the nature of your church today but simply want your church to be bigger?

What would success look like if the church were to be comprised of true followers of Christ?

Although they are good people and have been called to ministry, most senior pastors do not have an understanding of God's vision for the ministries they are trying to lead—and, consequently, most churches have little impact in their community or in the lives of their congregants.

This problem is pervasive within the community of believers: Christians don't know the content of their faith and show little concern about their ignorance. This

Whom should you pursue? That question can be answered only after your church has done the hard work of getting to know who the unchurched are in your community. Your approach will vary depending on whether you have a substantial born-again churchless segment in your neighborhood or more people who are purely unchurched—that is, those with no background of church involvement. Your goal in both cases is to connect with the unchurched around you, but the way you approach them will differ.

If only for a half hour a day, a child should do something serviceable to the community

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to this country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody.

The waterway between our houses marked a boundary as clear as the one between white and black, rich and poor. It was just like at the school yard, only with adults: the Martellos had their circle, my parents had theirs, and the two were never meant to overlap.

Next to the love of God, the love of country is the best preventive of crime.

There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success.

Americans are generous and strong and decent, not because we believe in ourselves, but because we hold beliefs beyond ourselves.

But if each man could have his own house, a large garden to cultivate and healthy surroundings - then, I thought, there will be for them a better opportunity of a happy family life.

There will be a rain dance Friday night, weather permitting

God bless… Chocolate City… and its vanilla suburbs.

With friends and gay companions round them, thenMen boldly speak and have the hearts of men;Who, with opponents seated, miss the aidOf kind applauding looks, and grow afraid.

Most people don't have a clue what our volunteers really do.

One of the most notable features in this eschatological people is that of fellowship (koin?nia).44 Fellowship was one of the distinctive marks of the Jerusalem church (Acts 2:42). This is something more than human fellowship or the pleasure people of like mind find in each other's presence. It is more than a fellowship in a common religion. It is an eschatological creation of the Holy Spirit.

The local church is not part of the church but is the church in its local expression.

Jesus' sonship postulates a relationship that is independent of any historical experience that seems to involve "a community of nature between the Father and the Son."39

Thus entrance into the Kingdom means participation in the church; but entrance into the church is not necessarily synonymous with entrance into the Kingdom.38

The church is in fact the true Israel of God.