Quotes about Community

And now I urge you, dear lady—not as a new commandment to you, but one we have had from the beginning—that we love one another.

If anyone comes to you but does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your home or even greet him.

The elder, To the beloved Gaius, whom I love in the truth:

Beloved, you are faithful in what you are doing for the brothers, and especially since they are strangers to you.

I have written to the church about this, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first, will not accept our instruction.

Instead, I hope to see you soon and speak with you face to face. Peace to you. The friends here send you greetings. Greet each of our friends there by name.

After this I looked and saw a multitude too large to count, from every nation and tribe and people and tongue, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and holding palm branches in their hands.

I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game.

From the beginning, there have been some religious leaders who greeted the funding of faith-based social services by government with ambivalence.

Those issues are biblical issues: to care for the sick, to feed the hungry, to stand up for the oppressed. I contend that if the evangelical community became more biblical, everything would change.

After-school tutoring programs, care for the elderly, shelters for the homeless, disaster relief work, and a variety of other services would all benefit from government funding.

Jesus never says to the poor: 'come find the church', but he says to those of us in the church: 'go into the world and find the poor, hungry, homeless, imprisoned.