Quotes about Community

Privatized salvation never accumulates into corporate change because it attracts and legitimates individualists to begin with.

but we are the Body of Christ. "Christ" is not Jesus

It is no longer about being correct. It is about being connected. Being in right relationship is much, much better than just trying to be "right.

The whole of creation—not just Jesus—is the beloved community, the partner in the divine dance. Everything is the "child of God." No exceptions. When you think of it, what else could anything be? All creatures must in some way carry the divine DNA of their Creator.

When people get together in solidarity and unity, not out of power but out of powerlessness, then Christ is in their midst.

Mary is all of us both receiving and handing on the gift. We liked her precisely because she was one of us—and not God!

Whatever we are living through, we are in it together. It is not a contest between us. We are good by one another's goodness; we are sinners by one another's sin. In other words, both love and sin are highly contagious.

If you want to be important, serve others. And if you want to be at the top, then slave to help everyone else. The

If you go to heaven alone, wrapped in your private worthiness, it is by definition not heaven. If your notion of heaven is based on exclusion of anybody else, then it is by definition not heaven. The more you exclude, the more hellish and lonely your existence always is. How could anyone enjoy the "perfect happiness" of any heaven if she knew her loved ones were not there, or were being tortured for all eternity? It would be impossible.

whatever that takes, and then has plenty left over for others. True heroism serves the common good, or it is not really heroism at all.

Up to now we have been more in love with elitism than with any egalitarianism; we liked being the "one," but just did not know how to include the many in that very One.

We are creating many para-church organizations, and some new studies claim that if we look at the statistics, we will see that Christians are not leaving Christianity as much as they are realigning with groups that live Christian values in the world, instead of just gathering to again hear the readings, recite the creed, and sing songs on Sunday.