A river that will revive the weary world

Is there no place of refreshing where a man can prepare for the battle of life? Is there no place where two or three can gather in Jesus’ name, to forget for the moment all those things that divide nation from nation and race form race, to forget the puzzling problems of industrial strife and to unite in overflowing gratitude at the foot of the Cross? If there be such a place, then that is the house of God and the gate of heaven. And from under the threshold of that house will go forth a river that will revive the weary world.

- J. Gresham Machen, Christianity and Liberalism, 180.

Importance of Community

“Those who lack friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts….This communicating of a man’s self to his friends works two contrary effects; for it redoubles joys and cuts griefs in half.”

Francis Bacon, “Of Friendship,” 1625