We cannot love God unless we love each other, and to love we must know each other.  We know Him in the breaking of bread, and we know each other in the breaking of bread, and we are not alone any more.  Heaven is a banquet and life is a banquet, too, even with a crust, where there is companionship.
We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community. 

Dorothy Day

The existence of a plurality of "Churches" (in the modern sense of the word) is scandalous, for the Church's unity in Christ is of its very essence.  The degree to which it has ceased to appear scandalous is the measure of the extent to which the word "Church" has been evacuated of its New Testament meaning.  A divided Church in the New Testament sense of the word Church is something illogical and incomprehensible--as illogical and incomprehensible as human sin. 

Lesslie Newbigin

The linkage which unites Christians in a common body is a linkage which crosses the boundaries of the centuries as well as the lines of longitude and latitude.  The Christian community, the Church, is a massive body spread out across the map of history.  It is a body quivering with life in all its members.  All its members; not just those passing here and now between birth and death.  That is the community the Christian joins at baptism. 

Harry Blamires

Order of Worship, January 9 2011

Grace Presbyterian Church