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Let us preach Christ, let us be faithful to proclaiming the Gospel, but let's leave judgment in the hands of God.

Tony Campolo

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Tony Campolo
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: February 25
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
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In America, evangelical churches have often been bastions of conservatism, providing support for the status quo.
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Nowhere in the Hebrew Scriptures does it say that God is omnipotent.
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Today, some of the most spiritual people I know claim to be without religion.
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The gospel is not about... pie-in-the-sky when they die. ... It is imperative that the up and coming generation recognize that the biblical Jesus was committed to the realization of a new social order in this world.... Becoming a Christian, therefore, is a call to social action.
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That's what they do in Europe. You go down to the city hall and you become legally connected. You have a civil union there. Then, if you're religious, you go down to the church, and the church blesses the union. That gets the problem solved.
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