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One of the most startling discoveries of my life was the realization that the Jesus that I love, the Jesus who died for me on Calvary, that Jesus, is waiting, mystically and wonderfully, in every person I meet. I find Jesus everywhere.

Tony Campolo

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Tony Campolo
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: February 25
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Most of my fundamentalist brothers and sisters - and I am an evangelical, so I can say most of my fundamentalist brothers and sisters - are quite willing to pack women off and send them as missionaries to dangerous places where they might get killed.
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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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Those issues are biblical issues: to care for the sick, to feed the hungry, to stand up for the oppressed. I contend that if the evangelical community became more biblical, everything would change.
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If marriage really is a sacred institution, then why is the government controlling it, especially in a nation that affirms separation of church and state?
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The Jesus of the Scripture transcends all nations and calls all nations into judgment.
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But I think it's up to a local congregation to determine whether or not a marriage should be blessed of God. And it shouldn't be up to the government.
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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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I contend that Bush would be a lot more moderate if there weren't some fundamentalists breathing down his neck every time he wants to establish the state of Israel, every time he wants to do justice for the Palestinian people.
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Today, some of the most spiritual people I know claim to be without religion.
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Nowhere in the Hebrew Scriptures does it say that God is omnipotent.
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I think the real place where most evangelicals have trouble with the Democratic Party is on the issue of abortion.
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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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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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In America, evangelical churches have often been bastions of conservatism, providing support for the status quo.
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My theology is such that the God who loves Israel and will not forsake Israel - which is why I want to see Israel have a secure nation with secure borders - also loves the Palestinians.
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I am looking for suggestions on what we can do about extremists within our own society. They cannot be ignored.
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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
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If America is too arrogant, too prideful to repent, it's not the kind of country that God wants it to be.
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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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A Christian school should be a place where young men and young women go through a period of spiritual formation and development so that they come out incredibly more proficient at living out their calling than they would have been had they not gone to school.
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