Quotes about Community

If I were king of Christianity, after limiting church services to forty-five minutes and sermons to ten, as well as outlawing church "share time" altogether, I would proclaim a kingdom-wide decree that, at least for a while until we get it, "believe" should be stricken from all of our Bibles and replaced with trust.

Another dynamic at work here is how friends, family, and church members would handle it if they knew what you were thinking. Feeling judged and banished is a common story among those who take a risk to let people in on their well-guarded secret.

The root of the conflict for many Christians is not scientific or even theological, but group identity and fear of losing what it offers.

When Christians feel crushed by such "people of God," faith is exposed as something that just doesn't work here and now. And if something doesn't work, intellectual arguments for staying in the faith lose their appeal over time. Why bother?

The LORD God also said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make for him a suitable helper.”

Now the whole world had one language and a common form of speech.

“Come,” they said, “let us build for ourselves a city with a tower that reaches to the heavens, that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of all the earth.”

But if any male is not circumcised, he will be cut off from his people; he has broken My covenant.”

So Laban invited all the men of that place and prepared a feast.

and he said to his relatives, “Gather some stones.” So they took stones and made a mound, and there by the mound they ate.

Intermarry with us; give us your daughters, and take our daughters for yourselves.

You may settle among us, and the land will be open to you. Live here, move about freely, and acquire your own property.”