Quotes about Community

Practice of true community involves responsibilities and actions that do not come naturally to us.

If we are to master the scriptural principles of true biblical community, we must master this one: True greatness in the kingdom of heaven involves serving one another. Jesus said, "Whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant" (Matthew 20:26).

Fellowship is much, much more than food and fun and even more than reading and studying the Scriptures with another believer. Fellowship at times may involve blood, sweat, and tears as we stand side by side with our persecuted brothers and sisters.

Christianity is not a do-it-yourself thing.

But this is what servant-hood within the fellowship of believers is all about: being alert to the little things that need to be done and then doing them.

Fellowship is not just a social privilege to enjoy; it is more basically a responsibility to assume.

Biblical community is first of all the sharing of a common life in Christ.

We cannot separate the history of a nation from the people of that nation.

But on the whole, we appear to be more concerned about the sins of society than we are the sins of the saints.

The common life that believers have in Him. In the same manner, if believers are to share with one another

We are all sinners and are on an equal plane with one another. So we cannot exercise grace as God does, but we can relate to one another as those who have received grace and who wish to operate on the principles of grace.

Because His people were in union with Him, to persecute them was to persecute Him. This truth is no different today. You are in union with Christ, just as surely as the disciples were in the time of the book of Acts.