The opposite of fear is love. Fear is self-centeredness. Love is self-giving. The only way to finally destroy fear is in community. (Tim Keller, sermon on praying fears).
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Timothy Keller
Posted in Community, Fear, Love, Selfishness on June 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Eugene Peterson
Posted in Church, Commitment, Community, Discipleship, Faith, Religion, Sex, Spirituality, Worship on June 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Shun spirituality that does not require commitment. Personal commitment to the God personally revealed in Jesus is at the heart of spirituality. Faddish spiritualities, within or without the church, ignore or deny commitment…
Spirituality without commitment is analogous to sexuality without commitment—quick and casual, superficial and impersonal, selfish and loveless—eventually a parody of its initial [...]
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Posted in Autonomy, Christian Life, Church, Community, Sin on November 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
He who is alone with his sins is utterly alone. It may be that Christians, not withstanding corporate worship, common prayer, and all their fellowship in service, may still be left to their loneliness. The final breakthrough to fellowship does not occur because, though they have fellowship with one another as believers and as devout [...]
Thomas Howard
Posted in Church, Community, Discipleship, Gospel, Liturgy, Peace, Relationships, Worship on April 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
…we proclaim together our citizenship in that joyful realm known as the Kingdom of Heaven, where pride, cruelty, greed, and all the things that wreck our fellowship with each other are forever banished, and where the citizens always fervently and joyfully offer each other ‘the peace of the Lord.’ This is what sanctity (‘sainthood’) is [...]
Madeline L’Engle
Posted in Baptism, Children, Church, Community, Love, Renewal, Resurrection, Sacraments on April 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I am glad that in the communion of my church we are baptized as infants, because this emphasizes that the gift of death to this world and birth into the Kingdom of God is, in fact, gift—it is nothing we have earned, or even, as infants, chosen. It is God’s freely bestowed love. It is [...]
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Posted in Community, Love, Selfishness on March 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
He who loves his dream of community more than the Christian community itself becomes a destroyer of the latter, even though his intentions may be ever so honest and earnest and sacrificial… the man who fashions a visionary ideal of community demands that it be realized by God, by others, and by himself. He enters [...]
Eugene Peterson
Posted in Community, Gospel on March 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
One of the immediate changes that the gospel makes is grammatical: we instead of I; our instead of my; us instead of me. (Eugene Peterson, Reversed Thunder)
Mark Buchanan
Posted in Community, Individualism, Religion on March 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
American religion is a mass of contradictions. We want community, but on strictly individual terms. We want human closeness without feeling cramped or obligated. We want a personal God who doesn’t ask much personally. We want mystery, but in a controlled, non-disruptive way. We want a faith that’s fulfilling, practical, earthy, tolerant, transcendent, fun, empowering, [...]
Gilbert Bilezikian
Posted in Community, Discipleship, Sanctification on March 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Community is to be found at the intersection of the two segments of the cross, where those who are reconciled with God are reconciled together–where we love God with all we have and we love our neighbor as ourselves. It is where we learn to care and share, to challenge and support, to confide and [...]
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