Quotes about Gathering

Glasses clinked and voices rubbed each other.

Kumbh Mela is the best way to get an insight of our culture.

Jesus is the sanctuary every time we gather with other believers. We need that truth to soak into our hearts.

If Jesus were living in our culture, he would probably hang out in coffeehouses.

From the human perspective, the purpose of the church meeting is mutual edification. But from God's perspective, the purpose of the gathering is to express His glorious Son and make Him visible. (The church is the body, and Christ is the Head. The purpose of one's body is to express the life that's within it.)

The social location of the church meeting expresses and influences the character of the church.

According to the first-century use of the word, an ekklesia is a local gathering of Christians who live as a shared-life community and who gather regularly under the Headship of Jesus Christ.

When you read the New Testament, you see the Holy Spirit was supposed to change everything so that this gathering of people who call themselves Christians had this supernatural element about them.

It is, as some modern Christian thinkers have said, what makes the Church what it really is. For that short time, when we gather as God's guests at God's table, the Church becomes what it is meant to be — a community of strangers who have become guests together and are listening together to the invitation of God.

All across America, we gather this week with the people we love to give thanks to God for the blessings in our lives.

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.

Spiritual superiority only sees the individual. But alas, ordinarily we human beings are sensual and, therefore, as soon as it is a gathering, the impression changes- we see something abstract, the crowd, and we become different. But in the eyes of God, the infinite spirit, all the millions that have lived and now live do not make a crowd, He only sees each individual.