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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.

Shane Claiborne

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Shane Claiborne
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: July 11
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Eastern Tennessee
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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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The problem is that the Chicken-Soup-for-the-Soul stuff may feel good, but none of that typical stuff helps when somebody in your neighborhood is murdered.
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In the Bible, God uses brothel owners, pagan kings, murderers and mercenaries as instruments of good at one point God even speaks to a guy named Balaam through his donkey.
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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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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 give people fish. We teach them to fish. We tear down the walls that have been built up around the fish pond. And we figure out who polluted it.
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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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Dance until they kill you, and then we'll dance some more.
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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 are some things to die for but none to kill for.
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If every Christian family brought in a child who needed a family we would put the foster care system out of business.
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Little movements of communities of ordinary radicals are committed to doing small things with great love.
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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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The early Christians felt a deep collision with the empire in which they lived, and with politics as usual. They carelessly crossed party lines and built subversive friendships. And we should do that too.
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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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It is the church's responsibility, the government's responsibility, and the personal responsibility of every one of us to love.
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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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That is part of our critique of some of the charity and service work is that we can still keep relationships at a distance by creating programs that offer services but we don't really create a reconciled community.
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A pastor friend of mine said, Our problem is that we no longer have martyrs. We only have celebrities.
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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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