Quotes about Community

Humans are lonely, and they want to be seen and known.

As we saw earlier, it takes only two things to turn a group of people into a tribe: • A shared interest • A way to communicate

The communication can be one of four kinds: • Leader to tribe • Tribe to leader • Tribe member to tribe member • Tribe member to outsider

Through your actions as a leader, you attract a tribe that wants to follow you. That tribe has a worldview that matches the message you're sending.

a hospital for the broken, not a museum for the perfect.

What I think we as the church lack, though, is a place to talk about how things really are now. In our desire to be an inspiration to one another we often veil what is true, because what is true is not always inspirational. But hurting believers whose lives are in tatters often need real help. If we were able to put aside our need for approval long enough to be authentic, then, surely, we would be living as the church.

John Donne, the sixteenth-century poet, wrote these familiar but profound words: No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main…Any man's death diminishes me because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

You are not alone. You are not alone. No matter how you feel, God's Word would never lie. You are not alone!

If you were to write your life motto, what would it say? Look out for number one? Or look out for the needs of others?

The church must share in the secular problems of ordinary human life, not dominating, but helping and serving.

The only way for us to help ourselves is to help others and to listen to each other's stories.

People need to understand, we can come together as a nation; we can create a culture of life.