Quotes about Unity
A willingness to share our possessions with one another is a very important aspect of true biblical community.
— Jerry Bridges
This is fellowship: sharing with one another what God is teaching through the Scriptures, and this is an important part of true community.
— Jerry Bridges
It is not the fact that we are united in common goals or purposes that makes us a community. Rather, it is the fact that we share a common life in Christ.
— Jerry Bridges
Biblical community, then, incorporates this idea of an active partnership in the promotion of the gospel and the building up of believers.
— Jerry Bridges
Without this relationship with God, there can be no spiritual relationship with one another.
— Jerry Bridges
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.
— Jerry Bridges
believe this truth, that we are fellow members of the body of Christ and that God loves each of us, could serve to diffuse a lot of hostility and disagreement among fellow believers. I am grateful that God taught me this lesson early in my training to be a Navigator staff member.
— Jerry Bridges
Christianity is not a do-it-yourself thing.
— Jerry Bridges
Biblical community is first of all the sharing of a common life in Christ.
— Jerry Bridges
It does no good to nail an unattached branch to the vine; there is no life-giving connection. But those branches that are an integral part of the vine share in the life of the vine.
— Jerry Bridges
We cannot separate the history of a nation from the people of that nation.
— Jerry Bridges
The Bible speaks not of God's laws, as if many of them, but of God's Law as a single whole.
— Jerry Bridges