Quotes about Community
The relevance of the church is not found in its capitulation to culture but in its transformation of culture.
— James Emery White
Unloving attitudes and words cause a "stench that the world can smell... Our sharp tongues, the lack of love between us... these are what properly trouble the world."
— James Emery White
What people think about God, Jesus Christ, and the Church cannot be separated from their own social and political status in a given society.
— James H. Cone
When we ask people what they want in church instead of giving them what they were created to long for, we play in the very idolatry that church was created to dismantle.
— James MacDonald
The body of Christ is about doing life together, and by doing life together sin is revealed.
— James MacDonald
When the people of God are not told the works of God, they lose the wonder of God, and everyone does that which is right in his or her own eyes.
— James MacDonald
So often, it's others around us who can see where God wants to grow us even before we see it ourselves.
— James MacDonald
In healthy churches, the pastors life, not just his words, sets the tone for the church.
— James MacDonald
The people sang to the Lord, not about Him.
— James MacDonald
Church was never intended to be a place where we serve God to the exclusion of meeting with Him.
— James MacDonald
Given the impossibility of not failing one another, when the Bible says, "We all stumble in many ways," the only way forward in loving community with one another is forgiveness.
— James MacDonald
Small groups are the place to push past Bible knowledge and on to life application so that we can see people's lives transform more and more into the image of Christ.
— James MacDonald