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Our churches should attract the people Jesus attracted and frustrate the people Jesus frustrated.
Shane Claiborne
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Shane Claiborne
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: July 11
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When it comes to the big issues like immigration, everyone has a role. The government has a role. The church has a role. Every Christian has a role.
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Philadelphia caught my attention in 1995 when a group of homeless families were living in an abandoned cathedral. Even from the beginning they connected theology with what they were doing. They put a banner on the front of the cathedral that said, How can we worship a homeless man on Sunday and ignore one on Monday.
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We give people fish. We teach them to fish. We tear down the walls that have been built up around the fish pond. And we figure out who polluted it.
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I wondered if there were other restless people asking the question with me: What if Jesus meant the stuff he said?.
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Jesus still has a really great reputation and the Spirit is still moving. I've got a lot of hope for a generation that takes Jesus seriously, once again.
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God can use anything, and anyone - even a king or a president, even a tax collector or a businessman, a priest or a prostitute, a Republican or a Democrat.
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We might hope to change the world through better, bigger programs to stop global warming, but global warming will not end unless people become less greedy and less wasteful, gaining a fresh vision of what it means to love our global neighbor.
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It is the church's responsibility, the government's responsibility, and the personal responsibility of every one of us to love.
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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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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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Dance until they kill you, and then we'll dance some more.
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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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I think in the end, God's justice is redemptive, it's restorative, it's about giving life, not taking life.
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When we ask God to move a mountain, God may give us a shovel.
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Faith is believing in the impossible because we have a God who is master of impossible.
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[Mahatma] Ghandi said in a world with so many hungry people it just makes sense that God would come as food. God sent the living bread and the living water in a world where there is so much thirst and so much hunger.
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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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If every Christian family brought in a child who needed a family we would put the foster care system out of business.
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I'm just not convinced that Jesus is going to say, When I was hungry, you gave a check to the United Way and they fed me.
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