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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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Tony Campolo
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: February 25
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There's nothing wrong with making a lot of money, there's something wrong with keeping it.
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A career public speaker is not what I'm called to be. I'm called to be a critic.
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Of the 22 industrialized nations of the world, we're dead last in per capita giving to poor people.
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I, for one, am quite willing to join the 'forgive, forget and move on' crowd, but it does make me wonder if Evangelicals are going to sound believable when they say that they tend to vote Republican because of their religious commitments to the family.
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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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I think it goes back to the fact that the evangelical community often does not have a biblical vision of God.
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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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I am looking for suggestions on what we can do about extremists within our own society. They cannot be ignored.
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