Quotes about Community

I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

Power has only one duty--to secure the social welfare of the people.

Actually, my character needs to be questioned. On a regular basis. By people who know and love me.

Racial distinctions should not be rejected; they should be embraced.

As the gospels present it to us, the mission of Jesus of Nazareth is about the way in which the community of God's people - historically, the Jewish people who had first received the law and the covenant - is being re-created in relation to Jesus himself.

Even in my own church I heard the words, 'Francis Chan' more than I heard the words, 'Holy Spirit.'

I consider the homeless just as important as the richest of the rich.

Embrace every opportunity of exercising kind feelings and doing good to others, especially to the household of faith.

I believe you mother everybody, not in a cloying, hovering way, but taking care of what is around you.

Humble people ask for help.

This is what every follower of Jesus should be engaged in on a regular basis: sharing our faith, leading others to Christ, discipling them, and helping them to get grounded in the church—and then going out and doing it all again.

A poll by researcher George Barna revealed that about 25 percent of the adults in the United States would go to church if a friend would just invite them.