Quotes About Community

Without this relationship with God, there can be no spiritual relationship with one another.

Practice of true community involves responsibilities and actions that do not come naturally to us.

If we are to master the scriptural principles of true biblical community, we must master this one: True greatness in the kingdom of heaven involves serving one another. Jesus said, "Whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant" (Matthew 20:26).

Fellowship is much, much more than food and fun and even more than reading and studying the Scriptures with another believer. Fellowship at times may involve blood, sweat, and tears as we stand side by side with our persecuted brothers and sisters.

The reason most of us do not see opportunities to serve is that we are continually thinking about ourselves instead of others.

Christianity is not a do-it-yourself thing.

But this is what servant-hood within the fellowship of believers is all about: being alert to the little things that need to be done and then doing them.

Fellowship is not just a social privilege to enjoy; it is more basically a responsibility to assume.

Biblical community is first of all the sharing of a common life in Christ.

We cannot separate the history of a nation from the people of that nation.

But on the whole, we appear to be more concerned about the sins of society than we are the sins of the saints.

the common life that believers have in Him. In the same manner, if believers are to share with one another

We are all sinners and are on an equal plane with one another. So we cannot exercise grace as God does, but we can relate to one another as those who have received grace and who wish to operate on the principles of grace.

Because His people were in union with Him, to persecute them was to persecute Him. This truth is no different today. You are in union with Christ, just as surely as the disciples were in the time of the book of Acts.

Automation and technology would be a great boon if it were creative, if there were more leisure, more opportunity to engage in raising a family, providing guidance to the young, all the stuff we say we need. America will work if we're all in it together. It'll work when there's a shared sense of destiny. It can be done!

We have to restore power to the family, to the neighborhood, and the community with a non-market principle, a principle of equality, of charity, of let's-take-care-of-one-another. That's the creative challenge.

Identification is the goal not only of every story but of every life. It's our deepest social need.

Billy Almon has all of his inlaw and outlaws here this afternoon.

But hey, when you live in Watts, you need a little smack to get by, you know what I mean? You need something soft and comfortable in your life, 'cause you're not going to get it from what's around you. And society isn't going to give it to you.

Ice cream is the perfect buffer, because you can do things in a somewhat lighthearted way. Plus, people have an emotional response to ice cream; it's more than just food. So I think when you combine caring, and eating wonderful food, it's a very powerful combination.

College was especially sweet because of the positive, hopeful atmosphere of a college campus.

The lesson here is that "silo thinking"—each component operating in a vacuum—can destroy a healthy functioning community, whether in nature or in business

No one," Ben noted, "would have known about James Chaney if he had been by himself.

Music shouldn't be based around money or politics. Music should be a bunch of people that really do great songs together doing them together for the pursuit of having a good time.