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Christians pretty much live like everybody else, they just sprinkle a little Jesus in along the way.
Shane Claiborne
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Shane Claiborne
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: July 11
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We are setting ourselves up for disappointment if our hope is built on anything less than Jesus.
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The church is like Noah's ark. It stinks, but if you get out of it, you'll drown.
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I'm excited we can be part of making the death penalty history.
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As my friend said that when people say the church is full of hypocrites, he says we always have room for more.
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If those of us who believe in God do not believe God's grace is big enough to save the whole world... well, we should at least pray that it is.
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As Christians, we should be the best collaborators in the world. We should be quick to find unlikely allies and subversive friends, like Jesus did.
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Prayer is not so much about convincing God to do what we want God to do as it is about convincing ourselves to do what God wants us to do.
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I say let's be idealists. Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not yet see (Hebrews 11:1).
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My goal is to speak the truth in love. There are a lot of people speaking the truth with no love, and there are a lot of people talking about love without much truth.
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The early Christians felt a deep collision with the empire in which they lived, and with politics as usual. They carelessly crossed party lines and built subversive friendships. And we should do that too.
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Sometimes our tunnel vision is limited to what we see outside our window. Until racial injustice becomes personal then I don't think it moves us in our gut.
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I moved to Philadelphia to go to school at Eastern partly because I wanted to study the Bible and I also went to study sociology. I like how Karl Barth said we have to read the Bible in one hand and the newspaper in the other so that our faith doesn't just become a ticket into heaven and a license to ignore the world around us.
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