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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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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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[People] need to find words that can reconnect them with each other. That is the gift of good liturgy, yeah. We're not talking about fluffy stuff. We're talking about real life for people around the world. Our prayers should be said like the daily breath that gives us life.
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There are some Christians who totally disengage from politics and set their minds on heaven so much that their faith is so heavenly minded that it is no earthly good.
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Faith is being idealistic, because we have made an idol out of the status quo.
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We're remembering each other's heroes, too. We are learning each other's songs. We are reminding ourselves that we are a global family praying together. We're all trying to live in the light of the history that shines through the biblical narrative.
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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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The question becomes not just how to accumulate more, but how to covet less.
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People had taught me what Christians believe, but no one had told me how Christians live.
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Prayer is not so much about convincing God to do what we want God to do as it is about convincing ourselves to do what God wants us to do.
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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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It's hard to hear the gentle whisper of the Spirit amid the noise of Christendom.
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When we ask God to move a mountain, God may give us a shovel.
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I think we've misinterpreted some of the scriptures to justify the death penalty. So whereas a lot of folks in America feel like we can do far better justice - it's more expensive to do the death penalty than the alternatives - there's so many reasons that people come to the conclusion to abolish the death penalty.
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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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I think of the Catholic worker movement and Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin and others.
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Over and over, when I ask God why all of these injustices are allowed to exist in the world, I can feel the Spirit whisper to me, You tell me why we allow this to happen. You are my body, my hands, my feet.
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We know the Church wasn't born 200 years ago. It's encouraging to see some of the post-denominational churches actually wanting to reconnect with the story and the prayer life of the larger Church.
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There is extreme poverty in Appalachia, where I was, and increasingly poverty is not just an urban thing.
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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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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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