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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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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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It's hard to hear the gentle whisper of the Spirit amid the noise of Christendom.
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I'm excited we can be part of making the death penalty history.
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The love that makes community is the willingness to do someone else's dirty work.
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I think of the Catholic worker movement and Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin and others.
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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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As Christians, we should be the best collaborators in the world. We should be quick to find unlikely allies and subversive friends, like Jesus did.
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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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There is real value in these local congregations. For me, a lot of it is the value of the sacraments we share. In neighborhoods like ours, the churches provide stability.
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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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Christians pretty much live like everybody else, they just sprinkle a little Jesus in along the way.
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Rather than finding the devil out there, we battle the devil within us. The revolution starts inside each of us.
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Our churches should attract the people Jesus attracted and frustrate the people Jesus frustrated.
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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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The church is a place where broken people can fall in love with a beautiful God.
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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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The question becomes not just how to accumulate more, but how to covet less.
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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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The monastic folks have the spirit of being in the world but not of the world, sort of peculiar people who have gone to the desert to live on the margins of the empire.
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