Quotes about Participation

We almost always involve unbelievers in our small groups. And we give them opportunities to lead the discussion.

For the Congregation this new movement involves the danger of learning to think that the Services are done for them; and that their bodily presence is all they need contribute. And, for Clergy and Congregation alike, it involves the danger of regarding these elaborate Services as ends in themselves, and of forgetting that they are simply means, and the very hollowest of mockeries, unless they bear fruit in our lives.

I was in every club and extra-curricular activity at high school, and I was in the National Honor Society.

Christianity is not a spectator sport. It's something in which we become totally involved.

we should not assume that experts are the only ones who have a right to express themselves on questions affecting the organization of society.

The moral is plain. Avoid, if possible, being bored yourself or boring others.

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetuate it.

No one gets out of the game of life alive. You either die in the bleachers, or on the field. So, you might as well play out on the field, and go for it.

We all need reminders that there is a huge difference between coaching from the spiritual sidelines and putting skin in the game. Between advertising for the cause and actually joining it. Between talking about it from afar and getting close enough for it to affect our comfort.

True success in any endeavor can only come when the Father has initiated the activity and invited our participation.

Our hope in life beyond death is a hope made possible, not by some general sentimental belief in life after death, but by our participation in the life of Christ.

Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party.