Living Into Community Quotes

“When expectations of mobility are combined with a consumer mind-set, people are very likely to leave when things get difficult.”
― Christine D. Pohl, Living into Community: Cultivating Practices That Sustain Us

“In scripture, remembering falsely or forgetting entirely is often associated with an absence of gratitude. One of the saddest judgments passed on people in Scripture is that they didn't remember God's steadfast love.”
― Christine D. Pohl, Living Into Community: Cultivating Practices That Sustain Us

“Eugene Peterson offers a word of warning: "Impatience, the refusal to endure, is to pastoral character what strip mining is to the land - a greedy rape of what can be gotten at the least cost, and then abandonment in search of another place to loot."5”
― Christine D. Pohl, Living into Community: Cultivating Practices That Sustain Us

“In denominations where pastors are moved to a different church or churches every few years, issues of mobility and fidelity are complex in other ways. Laypeople may hesitate to make deep, long-term commitments when they don't know what the next leadership change will bring.”
― Christine D. Pohl, Living into Community: Cultivating Practices That Sustain Us