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He saved us in order that He might begin to transform His world into the kind of world that He willed for it to be when He created it. … When Jesus saved us, He saved us to be agents of a great revolution, the end of which will come when the kingdoms of this world will become the Kingdom of our God

Tony Campolo

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Tony Campolo
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: February 25
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Lies and distortions can be spread, via the Internet, in an inexpensive way, and the effects are astounding.
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The real problem that I think those of us who are evangelicals and Democrats have to face up to is that the political right controls the religious media.
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An evangelical is somebody who, first of all, has a very high view of Scripture, believes it's an infallible message from God.
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The Jesus of the Scripture transcends all nations and calls all nations into judgment.
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I am not suggesting that all those missionary organizations working in Haiti should pack up and go home, but I am urging them to understand that Haiti does not need clever Americans with newly contrived schemes for saving their country.
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Beyond these models of reconciliation, a theology of mysticism provides some hope for common ground between Christianity and Islam. Both religions have within their histories examples of ecstatic union with God, which seem at odds with their own spiritual traditions but have much in common with each other.
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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.
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I think the time has come for the United States to do even-handed justice.
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In short, I'm not sure that the abortion problem can be solved by legislation. I think it can only be solved through moral persuasion.
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President Bush once said that marriage is a sacred institution and should be reserved for the union of one man and one woman. If this is the case - and most Americans would agree with him on this - then I have to ask: Why is the government at all involved in marrying people?
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I'm not convinced that Jesus only lives in Christians.
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I don't know how your theology works, but if Jesus has a choice between stained glass windows and feeding starving kids in Haiti, I have a feeling he'd choose the starving kids in Haiti.
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Today, some of the most spiritual people I know claim to be without religion.
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It has been said that people never do evil with more enthusiasm than when they do it in the name of God.
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So after the Lewinsky scandal, everything changed, and we moved from using the Bible to address the moral issues of our time, which were social, to moral issues of our time that were very personal. I have continued that relationship up until the present.
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Even if there were no heaven and there were no hell, would you still follow Jesus? Would you follow him for the life, joy and fulfilment he gives you right now?
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Sigmund Freud was the apostle of disbelief. He was the one who made psychoanalysis a part of our culture, and in so doing he kicked out a flying buttress that had been essential for holding up our cathedral of faith.
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Our call is to be God's agents, to rescue not only the human race but the whole of creation.
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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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I've always been skeptical of those television healers who are bald. If I had that gift, that'd be the first thing I'd fix.
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