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I do believe that the Church is God's primary instrument for ushering in the Kingdom (God's dream) on earth as it is in heaven, but God is not limited to use only the Church, or only Christians for that matter.
Shane Claiborne
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Shane Claiborne
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: July 11
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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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Faith is believing in the impossible because we have a God who is master of impossible.
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God doesn't want to change the world without you.
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We have been mentored from the very beginning by Catholic folks who are invigorating the best of the monastic spirit.
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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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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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There are folks who burn the Koran and hold signs saying, God hates fags and all sorts of sick things - and they often hijack the headlines with hatred. We know that is not what Christ was like.
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People had taught me what Christians believe, but no one had told me how Christians live.
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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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David, Moses, Saul of Tarsus, these were all people who did terrible terrible things - they were murderers. The Bible would be a lot shorter without grace.
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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'.
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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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All around you, people will be tiptoeing through life, just to arrive at death safely. But dear children, do not tiptoe. Run, hop, skip, or dance, just don't tiptoe.
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Charity is merely returning what we have stolen.
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The dreams get anchored in aged wisdom not some utopian fantasy.
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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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There is an innocence or purity that we see in renewals and in the Mennonite church and a new an invigorated civil rights movement.
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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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The love that makes community is the willingness to do someone else's dirty work.
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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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