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The dreams get anchored in aged wisdom not some utopian fantasy.
Shane Claiborne
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Shane Claiborne
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: July 11
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This is what Jesus had in mind: folks coming together, forming close-knit communities and meeting each other's needs-- no kings, no major welfare systems, no presidents necessary. His is a theology and practice for the people of God, not a set of suggestions for empire.
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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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We are setting ourselves up for disappointment if our hope is built on anything less than Jesus.
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A lot of times people say whatever the government touches, they don't do that well, so why would we trust them with the power over life and death? Do we really believe the system is that perfect that it won't make any mistakes? You can't reverse these mistakes.
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Liturgy and worship were never meant to be confined to the cathedrals and sanctuaries. Liturgy at its best can be performed like a circus or theater - making the Gospel visible as a witness to the world around us.
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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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Christians pretty much live like everybody else, they just sprinkle a little Jesus in along the way.
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There are some things to die for but none to kill for.
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Somehow Jesus's reputation has survived all the embarrassing things that Christians have done in his name.
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Biological family is too small of a vision. Patriotism is far too myopic. A love for our own relatives and a love for the people of our own country are not bad things, but our love does not stop at the border.
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The church is a place where broken people can fall in love with a beautiful God.
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The future of the church is also about looking back and looking at where we see these wonderful renewals and what we can learn from the early church. I think it is a really exciting time where Phyllis Tickle said every few hundred years the church needs a rummage sale where we can get rid of some of the clutter.
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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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When we ask God to move a mountain, God may give us a shovel.
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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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Jesus taught us a prayer of community and reconciliation, belonging to a new people who have left the land of 'me'.
Shane Claiborne
People had taught me what Christians believe, but no one had told me how Christians live.
Shane Claiborne
Rather than finding the devil out there, we battle the devil within us. The revolution starts inside each of us.
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I like how someone once said being a Christian is not about having new ideas but having new eyes. This is the ability to have our hearts broken with the things that break the heart of God. That is part of what it means to be a Christian.
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What is the point in calling anything God if it does not also hold sway in every part of one's life--especially one's politics?
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