Quotes about Community

The coffers are full of money and equipment for the Ferguson Police and the Missouri National Guard to put down a potential uprising, but no money for actually uplifting the people of Ferguson, St. Louis, Missouri and around the nation.

We need to be politically engaged, but peculiar in how we engage. Jesus and the early Christians had a marvelous political imagination. They turned all the presumptions and ideas of power and blessing upside down.

In the urban community, the church doesn't just take people to Heaven; it feeds, clothes, and houses them. It teaches them how to read and gets them jobs. The church should be doing all that. What the government should be doing is freeing up the church and supporting the church, as long as it is providing social services.

I applaud the growing commitment of Evangelicals to the needs of the poor and oppressed in urban America.

In an urban environment, a church building is a thing of the past.

The separation of church and state is a suburban, not an urban, issue.

I think our biggest problem is lack of real, honest communication between black men and black women. A lot of men talk amongst men, and a lot of women speak amongst women.

Create your world around your work. Create your work around your life. Let other people help you shape it.

One aspect of neighbourly love is that we must not merely will our neighbours good, but actually work to bring it about.

We can never work alone to bring great multiplication. It has to happen through unity & diversity.

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.

People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and are still trying to inflict.