Quotes About Community

Where shall we express our hopes and fears? If we post our concerns on Facebook, we may forget to cast our cares on the Lord, the one who sustains us in our sorrows.

There is the constant temptation to relate to the iPhone rather than our world. It is a convenient filter for screening calls, keeping colleagues at a manageable distance. It provides a safe place to hide when we're anxious in a crowd. We avoid awkward moments by fading into our phone. It prompts us to look down rather than up, to ask Siri for answers rather than our friends, our parents, or our God.

Significantly for place, Barth asserts that "God grants him His own presence, i.e., Himself as the Co-inhabitant of this place."[113] From this perspective place is never fully place without God as a co-inhabitant.

For the disciple community, to be in communion with Jesus means to take active part in his mission. This is explicit in Mark's Gospel

Weirdly enough, the more we give away, the richer we become.

God is not calling us to go to church; he is calling us to be his church, the hope of the world.

If you honestly want to change, surround yourself with people who will help, people who believe you can do it.

Imagina lo que sería posible si dejamos de ir a la iglesia y empezamos a ser la iglesia!

It's easy to impress people with our strengths, but real connections are forged through our shared weaknesses.

If you're a follower of Jesus, He has given you abundance so that you can care for others, not so you can stock up on capri pants for next summer or afford a leather interior in the new SUV.

Show me your friends, and I'll show you your future. The people you're hanging out with today are shaping the person you will become tomorrow.

And the church does not exist for us. We are the church, and we exist for the world.

Al elegir a sus amigos, Jesús se rodeaba de los solitarios, los quebrantados, los ignorados por la sociedad. Dios te está llamando a formar parte de su iglesia, a ser su iglesia. Si no te consideras lo suficiente bueno, eres exactamente la persona que él está buscando.

Living the right life is almost impossible if you have the wrong friends.

One works hard to prop up an illusion that sucks the life out of them, and the other works hard to make their home a place that restores them, nurtures them, and gives life to others.

When he chose friends, Jesus surrounded himself with the lonely, the broken, and the overlooked. God is calling you to be a part of his church, to be his church. If you don't feel like you're good enough, then you're exactly who he's looking for.

When did we, as Christ followers, start to think that the church exists for us? When did we forget that we are the church? And that we're here for the world?

Instead of seeking to serve one another, we wrongly believe that there's one person out there who exists solely to make us happy.

Someone said that if you're lonely at the top, it's because you didn't take anyone with you.

Weird people love well.

The problem with thinking "we go to church" is that it gives us a consumer mindset: I'm looking for a church that meets my needs. I need a good church that will help me.

Does it really matter that you have 338 Facebook friends if you have no one to share your life with?

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

We find our lives when we give them away.