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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.
Shane Claiborne
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Shane Claiborne
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: July 11
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Faith is believing in the impossible because we have a God who is master of impossible.
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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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I just have a more holistic sense of what it means to be for life, knowing that life does not just begin at conception and end at birth, and that if I am going to discourage abortion, I had better be ready to adopt some babies and care for some mothers.
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I think of the Catholic worker movement and Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin and others.
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That is the power of the Eucharist. At the communion table you have rich and poor together in the early church and they were being challenged.
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The more I have read the Bible and studied the life of Jesus, the more I have become convinced that Christianity spreads best not through force but through fascination.
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I believe you know Jesus said a doctor doesn't come to the healthy, but the sick, and it's not the righteous but the sinners that I've come for, so I think that that's the scandal of God's love and grace that no one is beyond redemption, and we can see that all through scripture, you know.
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It's hard to hear the gentle whisper of the Spirit amid the noise of Christendom.
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There is one big misunderstanding of the monastics leaving society.
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Our churches should attract the people Jesus attracted and frustrate the people Jesus frustrated.
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There is real value in these local congregations. For me, a lot of it is the value of the sacraments we share. In neighborhoods like ours, the churches provide stability.
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There is a movement bubbling up that goes beyond cynicism and celebrates a new way of living, a generation that stops complaining about the church it sees and becomes the church it dreams of.
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A pastor friend of mine said, Our problem is that we no longer have martyrs. We only have celebrities.
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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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One by one, these disciples would infect the nations with grace. It wasn't a call to take the sword or the throne and force the world to bow. Rather, they were to live the contagious love of God, to woo the nations into a new future.
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The more I travel, the more I see how important it is to each population to see that their history of the good and the bad is remembered by others.
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We need good laws, but no law can change a human heart - only God can do that.
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If we believe terrorists are past redemption, we should just rip up like 1/2 the New Testament because it was written by one.
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It is the church's job, as Dr. [Martin Luther] King says, to be the conscience of the state, not the chaplain of the state.
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People had taught me what Christians believe, but no one had told me how Christians live.
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