Quotes about Community

Church has to be about helping people discover what they can't get anywhere else.

Our job is to get people to Jesus Christ and to get them back to Him in profound, life-altering ways every week.

No personal quiet time, no Christian book, no community or small group or service can substitute for the absence of God coming down to meet with His church corporately.

Instead of seeing ourselves as people trying to connect with people, let's see the church as people trying to connect with God and help others do the same.

Spending too much time in one's individual silo can produce pride, isolation, and a stagnated ministry.

The greatest failure in human existence is the failure of Christ-followers to "love one another earnestly from a pure heart"5 and to heed the words of Christ: "By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another."6

Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence

Properly speaking, a culture does not have a tradition; it is a tradition.

Religion ceases to be religion when its poetic authority is recast as civic authority.

Since a culture is not anything persons do, but anything they do with each other, we may say that a culture comes into being whenever persons choose to be a people. It is as a people that they arrange their rules with each other, their moralities, their modes of communication.

The departure of the church-going element had induced a more humanitarian atmosphere.

People who seek to serve the community end up falsifying their work, she wrote, whether the work is writing a novel or baking bread, because they are not single- mindedly focused on the task at hand. But if you serve the work— if you perform each task to its utmost perfection— then you will experience the deep satisfaction of craftsmanship and you will end up serving the community more richly than you could have consciously planned.