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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.

Shane Claiborne

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Shane Claiborne
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: July 11
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To all my nonbelieving, sort-of-believing, and used-to-be-believing friends: I feel like I should begin with a confession. I am sorry that so often the biggest obstacle to God has been Christians.
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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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For even if the whole world believed in resurrection, little would change until we began to practice it. We can believe in CPR, but people will remain dead until someone breathes new life into them. And we can tell the world that there is life after death, but the world really seems to be wondering if there is life before death.
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Someday war and poverty will be crazy and we will wonder how the world allowed such things to exist.
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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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Because you can poke someone's eye out legally doesn't mean you should and that it's right. The Bible teaches us a more perfect justice.
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Faith is being idealistic, because we have made an idol out of the status quo.
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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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