Quotes About Community

When we think "mission" we must think "church." And the best way to link church and mission is through church planting.

In Luke's Gospel Jesus is either going to a meal, at a meal, or coming from a meal.

Studying the text with other people reduces the impact of sin on our thinking.

Al igual que la iglesia deja de ser iglesia si no es misionera, la teología deja de ser teología si pierde su carácter misionero.

At the heart of our vision is not a new way of doing events but the creation of Word-centered gospel communities in which people are sharing life with one another and with unbelievers, seeking to bless their neighborhoods, "gospeling" one another and sharing the good news with unbelievers. The context for this gospel-centered community and mission is not events but ordinary, everyday

The church is thus the genuine (though imperfect and incomplete) presence in human history of a people who in their communion together are being narrated into the life of the living God. A divine institution, it is also a fully human, social reality tangibly present in the local congregation and united universally in its origin and end.

You can ask yourself, 'Why would so many people experience this kind of miserable place and not vacate?' Because it is a place full of people with nowhere else to go." •

A strip club is one of the few places where two groups voluntarily come together who have such precipitous contrasts in net worth and familiarity with violence, each group with a head-and-shoulders edge in one category. The basic math of a tropical storm.

Gasparilla is Tampa's annual heritage festival, and Tampa's heritage appears to be about alcohol.

What's this whole Parrot Head phenomenon about, anyway?" asked Crease. "It's kind of like AA in reverse.

the state retrained the bitter fishermen to farm clams, which they now cultivate with the latest marine science and profanity.

company's new mission statement hung proudly atop the front wall: To enhance our community's aggregate through multi-platform metrics of media synergy catalyzing integrated outcomes of macro-disciplines toward inclusive methodology paradigms generating positive algorithms of unwavering commitment to our children, the flag and God.

You've heard the joke," said Serge. "White pride is rotating the tires on your house.

You never stop being Catholic. It's like the Mafia or Amway.

Seriously, why do we stay in this state?" Sean asked.

Tampa: Visit again soon: Almost got our shit together.

country today. No manners." Serge unscrewed a thermos of coffee. "People used to hang out and actually communicate. But today they head to the mall and sit together at the Yogurt A Go-Go in their own separate spheres of mobile devices." "What's wrong with that?" "It's destroying the art of conversation!" said Serge. "I love conversations!

Beyond these shores, whenever two or more Irishmen are gathered together, everything almost can be done.

I am a Bay Area guy, no question.

If you want to be a cop, it's not for everybody, no question about it, but there's no place like New York City.

There was no question of ever sending us to Jewish schools... They wanted us out there. They wanted us to be lawyers and doctors. They wanted us out of the religious thing, apart from that ethnic bonding.

People want to go out and eat, theres no question about that. Its not something thats just going to go because of Covid. Its heartening the way people have come back to restaurants.

There's no reason for the establishment to fear me. But it has every right to fear the people collectively - I am one with the people.

I have no reason to sit home and write songs all day without going out and playing for the folks. And I have no reason to go play for the folks unless I'm writing new songs so they can sort of feed off one another. And I just try to do the best I can.