Quotes about Community

Every man needs a place to be open and vulnerable with brothers leaning together upon the Lord.

Do all you can to defeat selfish shepherding in your own heart.

Where is the church persevering in the priority of prayer?

Plain and simple, men need community with other men. Loving, you-before-me, dedicated relationship. If you have never had it, you don't really get it yet, and if you had that community and lost it, you know the cavity it leaves in your soul until you discover it again.

The satanic strategy of using lies to disguise, divide, and destroy. Let's focus on the middle word of Satan's plan to defeat you. The word is divide and his strategy is to get a wedge between you and men who can support God's work in your life through loving mutual community. As always he does this through lies.

Church has to be about helping people discover what they can't get anywhere else.

Our job is to get people to Jesus Christ and to get them back to Him in profound, life-altering ways every week.

No personal quiet time, no Christian book, no community or small group or service can substitute for the absence of God coming down to meet with His church corporately.

Instead of seeing ourselves as people trying to connect with people, let's see the church as people trying to connect with God and help others do the same.

Spending too much time in one's individual silo can produce pride, isolation, and a stagnated ministry.

The greatest failure in human existence is the failure of Christ-followers to "love one another earnestly from a pure heart"5 and to heed the words of Christ: "By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another."6

Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence