Quotes About Community

...I should have people around bugging me and getting under my skin because without people I could not grow - I could not grow in God, and I could not grow as a human.

The central problem is always in the midst of the people of God, not in the circumstances surrounding them.

If you meet God in solitude, you discover the God you meet is the God who embraces all people.

It's not about being a Baptist, Presbyterian, Pentecostal, or 5-Point Calvinist. God has only one family and, as Christians, we're in it!

Buildings are tools to reach people, raise disciples, reach students, train up our kids, heal marriages and families and worship God.

To be closer to god, be closer to people.

God is found in the collection of Many. . . rather than in the One.

Jesus saw the multitudes were hungry and He said, Oh Lord, send down a short-order cook.

How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?

Without God's Spirit, there is nothing we can do that will count for God's kingdom. Without God's Spirit, the church simply can't be the church.

The closer we are to God, the closer we are to those who are close to him.

Friends are God's way of taking care of us.

Relationships can be about yourself, they can be about you and your god, you and your people, you and your family. It can be about a lot of different stuff. And it is.

God always works through people.

When you go out for drinks, tell people to bring in a news story that made them say "Oh my god." Talk about it.

If people volunteered in the same way to construct schools or roads or even clear the river of plastic wrappers, by God, Pakistan would become a paradise within a year.

Whoever buys into the vision God has for the congregation develops an affinity for all that is going on.

Thank God for the theater.

I lived in Alabama and Georgia, and the people in the south are wonderful. It's God, faith, family, country.

The place to cure most of the ills of society is in the homes of the people.

My mom, God rest her soul - she liked nicknames. In the womb she named me Skip. There was another black guy in Piedmont, W.Va., and his name was Skip. They called him Big Skip, and I was Little Skip.

I remember vividly one distinct memory of arriving in Hong Kong and being the only blonde haired girl in this sea of international students, and thinking, 'Oh, my God. There's no hiding here.

The meetings least attended in our churches today are the ones whose only attraction is God.

A local church will only be as great as its conception of God.