Quotes about Community

The spirit and the manner of the Chief Shepherd should be the one adopted by the undershepherds.

There is a distinctive emphasis by Jesus on loving your neighbor, your "near dweller," not upon loving "humanity" or "everyone."19 What this means is that our duty and our virtue is to love those with whom we are in effectual contact—those we can really do something about.

That is one reason it is hard to get people to pray at church and why prayer meetings are often dead. People don't see that prayer—real, two-way conversation with God—makes any difference.

The church of Jesus Christ is not necessarily present when there is a correct administration of the sacrament and faithful preaching of the Word of God. The church of God is present where people gather together in the power of the resurrected life of Jesus Christ.

He is going to create a community of loving, creative, intelligent, loyal, faithful, and powerful human beings, and they are going to rule the earth. It is going to come to pass. If you want to be a part of that, just get on board.

You are an unceasing spiritual being, created for an intimate and transforming friendship with the creative Community that is the Trinity.

Discipleship is for the sake of the world, not for the sake of the church. It is carried out in those situations where people spend their life.

We don't consume the merits of Christ or the services of the church. We are participants, not spectators.

Love thy neighbor, just watch out for the husband

A measure of a leader is not the number of people who serve him, but the number of people he serves.

A cord of three strands is not easily broken.

Happy Wednesday! Cast your love to all, trust in the team to which you are joined, and do not do wrong to others for your own self gratification.