Quotes About Community

The Games are just a nice, positive way to build friendships, camaraderie and, of course, self-esteem. Plus, the Games are a great opportunity for people to participate in sports who normally wouldn't.

That day Haji Ali taught me the most important lesson I've ever learned in my life. We Americans think you have to accomplish everything quickly. We're the country of thirty-minute power lunches and two-minute football drills...Haji Ali taught me to share three cups of tea, to slow down and make building relationships as important as building projects. He taught me that I had more to learn from the people I work with than I could ever hope to teach them.

the people who live in the last places - the people who are most neglected and least valued by the larger world - often represent the best of who we are and the finest standard of what we are meant to become. This is the power that last places hold over me, and why I have found it impossible to resist their pull.

Haji Ali taught me to...slow down and make building relationships as important as building projects.

Once you educate the boys,they tend to leave the villages and go search for work in the cities. But the girls stay home, become leaders in the community, and pass on what they've learned.

Here we drink three cups of tea to do business; the first you are a stranger, the second you become a friend, and the third, you join our family, and for our family we are prepared to do anything - even die.

Do one good deed everyday and the world will be a better place

Once you educate the boys, they tend to leave the villages and go search for work in the cities, but the girls stay home, become leaders in the community, and pass on what they've learned. If you really want to change a culture, to empower women, improve basic hygiene and health care, and fight high rates of infant mortality, the answer is to educate girls.

If you teach a boy, you educate an individual; but if you teach a girl, you educate a community.

Haji Ali taught me the most important lesson I've ever learned in my life...We Americans think you have to accomplish everything quickly. We're the country of thirty-minute power lunches and two-minute football drills. Haji Ali taught me to share three cups of tea, to slow down and make building relationships as important as building projects.

And they did it with something that is basicly worthless in our society - pennies. But overseas, pennies can move mountains

Just as the Torah and Bible teach concern for those in distress, the Koran instructs all Muslims to make caring for widows, orphans, and refugees a priority.

Now in the new-paradigm churches, it is generally assumed that ministry is the province of the laos, the whole people of God.

What are the elements of transparent trust that will allow us to move gradually into the deep waters of transformation? • Affirming one another through encouragement • Walking with one another through difficult times • Being a reflective listener who assists another to hear God's guidance in life's complexities • Confessing our sins to one another that we may be healed

The life of Jesus is still being manifest among people, but now no longer through an individual physical body, limited to one place on earth, but through a complex, corporate body called the church.

The implication is that the church is not an optional afterthought for those who name Christ as their Lord. The church is central to God's plan of salvation.

Disciple making is not a program but a relationship.

To be a follower of Christ is to understand that there is no such thing as solo discipleship.

Intimate, accountable relationship with other believers is the foundation for growing in discipleship.

The problem in our culture . . . isn't the abortionists. It isn't the pornographers or drug dealers or criminals. It is the undisciplined, undiscipled, disobedient, and Biblically ignorant Church of Jesus Christ."[7]

Can you imagine the kingdom impact if every believer had the opportunity to be involved in an intensive, year-long relationship with at least two others whose expressed purpose was to grow to become a reproducing disciple of Jesus? Church life would shift from the ministry of professionals to a mobilized body of multipliers.

As the alternative to the one-on-one model, I propose a threesome that I call a triad as the ideal size for a disciple-making group.

The scriptural model for growing disciples is through relationships. Jesus called the Twelve to "be with him" (Mark 3:14), for their lives would be transformed through personal association.

Creating your own urban farm is as simple as planting your flowerbeds with edibles.