Quotes about Community

Humans live best when each has his place, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things. Destroy the place and destroy the person.

Winston Churchill wisely said, "First we shape our buildings. Thereafter, they shape us." Exegete the architecture of a typical church building and you'll quickly discover that it effectively teaches the church to be passive.

In the minds of the early Christians, the people—not the architecture—constituted a sacred space.

To put a finer point on it, the church building is based on the benighted idea that worship is removed from everyday life.

People are more important to Him than human traditions.

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

Are we living in a culture that is so infatuated with change that we have forgotten that the church is about transformation, not mere change?

the normative church meeting is when every member of the church comes together to share his or her portion of Christ (1 Corinthians 14:26, Colossians 3:16, Hebrews 10:24-25). All are free to teach, preach, prophesy, pray, and lead a song.

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.

All the traditional reasons put forth for "needing" a church building collapse under careful scrutiny. We so easily forget that the early Christians turned the world upside down without them (see Acts 17:6). They grew rapidly for three hundred years without the help (or hindrance) of church buildings.

No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.

People, like charity, begins at home.