My mouth's full of great praise for God, I'm singing the hallelujahs surrounded by crowds.
Psalm 109:30
"The gospel pulls us into community. One of the immediate changes that the gospel makes is grammatical: we instead of I, our instead of my, us instead of me. ...
A believing community is the context for the life of faith. Love cannot exist in isolation: away from others, love bloats into pride. Grace cannot be received privately: cut off from others it is perverted into greed. Hope cannot develop in solitude: separated from community, it goes to seed in the form of fantasies. No gift, no virtue can develop and remain healthy apart from the community of faith."
Reversed Thunder
God's Message for Each Day by Eugene Peterson
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"No gift, no virtue can develop and remain healthy apart from the community of faith."
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