Quotes about Gatherings

So gathering after gathering is intended to so enthrall you with the grandeur of God's grace that you can't think of anything better than being a tool of that grace in the lives of others.

These are the LORD’s appointed feasts, the sacred assemblies you are to proclaim at their appointed times.

Job’s sons would take turns holding feasts in their homes, and they would invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them.

In the following instructions I have no praise to offer, because your gatherings do more harm than good.

If summer had one defining scent, it'd definitely be the smell of barbecue.

Our Feast gatherings, which has spread all over the world, is attended by young people - and they love to sing worship songs.

Yet the Bible teaches that the local church is the natural environment for discipling. In fact, it teaches that the local church is itself the basic discipler of Christians. It does this through its weekly gatherings and its accountability structures (this chapter), as well as its elders and its members (next chapter). These in turn provide the context for the one-on-one discipling we have been considering so far.

There has been a class of social gatherings in——, ... parties of pleasure that have been a disgrace to our institutions and to the church. They encourage pride of dress, pride of appearance, self-gratification, hilarity, and trifling. Satan is entertained as an honored guest, and he takes possession of those who patronize these gatherings.

I like large parties. They're so intimate. At small parties there isn't any privacy.

The first-century churches were locatable, identifiable, visitable communities that met regularly in a particular locale.

They've gotten so used to these gatherings not being meaningful that they no longer know how to allow them to touch their heart or change their mind. The Holy Spirit is again the Missing Person of the Blessed Trinity.

Being around a church culture, even leading a gathering of believers, I've gotten pretty good at predicting what's going to happen in a church service.