Quotes about Sharing

This is fellowship: sharing with one another what God is teaching through the Scriptures, and this is an important part of true community.

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

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

Whenever we have more than we need, our natural assumption will be that it's for our own consumption.

I've been blessed so abundantly that I can never get over it. I just feel so richly blessed that I want to extend that to others wherever I can.

You get guys around a campfire, and they start telling their stories. That's the fellowship that they want to be in.

Adam means "human." Eve means "life." A human needs another for "life" to come alive and become living. Identity can't grow ferally, only communally. We were meant to eat together, not solo. Eve's solitary eating is what got her in trouble.

What do you mean?" they asked Jesus. "I mean this," he replied; and he took the bread, gave thanks, broke it into fragments, and shared those broken pieces with his disciples. And that piece, and those broken pieces, have been shared in every conceivable setting and played in every known language ever since. Faith is the gift of reading the signs of the presence of God. The point of reading signs is not the signs themselves, but the Signifier, Jesus the Christ.

You never get a blessing for yourself. You get a blessing to bless others. In the words of the black church, "a blessing can't get to you unless it first can go through you." We are blessed to bless.

The more there is of mine, the less there is of yours.

We can only keep what we have by being willing to freely give it away; a paraphrase of Jesus Christ.

Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one.