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Jesus taught us a prayer of community and reconciliation, belonging to a new people who have left the land of 'me'.
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 am sorry that so often the biggest obstacle to God has been Christians. Christians who have had so much to say with our mouths and so little to show with our lives. I am sorry that so often we have forgotten the Christ of our Christianity.
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