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Maybe we are a little crazy. After all, we believe in things we don't see. The Scriptures say that faith is "being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see" (Heb. 11:1). We believe poverty can end even though it is all around us. We believe in peace even though we hear only rumours of wars. And since we are people of expectation, we are so convinced that another world is coming that we start living as if it were already here.
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People had taught me what Christians believe, but no one had told me how Christians live,
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There is a movement bubbling up that goes beyond cynicism and celebrates a new way of living, a generation that stops complaining about the church it sees and becomes the church it dreams of.
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When we ask God to move a mountain, God may give us a shovel.
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Rocking the vote may mean going to the booths and writing in our Candidate, because he doesn't seem to be on the ballot.
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We shall do even greater things because the love that lived in the radical Christ now lives within millions of ordinary radicals all over the planet.
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So even as we see the horror of death, may we be reminded that in the end, love wins. Mercy triumphs. Life is more powerful than death. And even those who have committed great violence can have the image of God come to life again within them as they hear the whisper of love. May the whisper of love grow louder than the thunder of violence. May we love loudly.
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Biological family is too small of a vision. Patriotism is far too myopic. A love for our own relatives and a love for the people of our own country are not bad things, but our love does not stop at the border.
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All around you, people will be tiptoeing through life, just to arrive at death safely. But dear children, do not tiptoe. Run, hop, skip, or dance, just don't tiptoe.
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Perhaps there is no more dangerous place for a Christian to be than in safety and comfort, detached from the suffering of others.
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How can we worship a homeless man on Sunday and ignore one on Monday?
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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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The more I get to know Jesus, the more trouble he seems to get me into.
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I learned more about God from the tears of homeless mothers than any systematic theology ever taught me.
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This is what Jesus had in mind: folks coming together, forming close-knit communities and meeting each other's needs— no kings, no major welfare systems, no presidents necessary. His is a theology and practice for the people of God, not a set of suggestions for empire.
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I guess God can use the mafia, but I would like God to use the church.
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Little movements of communities of ordinary radicals are committed to doing small things with great love.
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Jesus did not send us into the world to make believers but to make disciples.
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Charity wins awards and applause, but joining the poor gets you killed. People do not get crucified for charity. People are crucified for living out a love that disrupts the social order, that calls forth a new world. People are not crucified for helping poor people. People are crucified for joining them.
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I remember hearing about an old comic strip back in the days of St. Ed's. Two guys are talking to each other, and one of them says he has a question for God. He wants to ask why God allows all of this poverty and war and suffering to exist in the world. And his friend says, "Well, why don't you ask?" The fellow shakes his head and says he's scared. When his friend asks why, he mutters, "I'm scared God will ask me the same question."
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So if the world hates us, we take courage that it hated Jesus first. If you're wondering whether you'll be safe, just look at what they did to Jesus and those who followed him. There are safer ways to live than by being a Christian.
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Christianity is at its best when it is peculiar, marginalized, suffering, and it is at its worst when it is popular, credible, triumphal, and powerful.
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We are faithful not to the triumphant golden eagle (ironically, also an imperial symbol of power in Rome) but to the slaughtered Lamb.
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It is a dangerous day when we can take the cross out of the church more easily than the flag. No wonder it is hard for seekers to find God nowadays.
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Too often we just do what makes sense to us and ask God to bless it.
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July 11, 1975
(age 48)
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Shane Claiborne is a Christian activist and author who is a leading figure in the New Monasticism movement and one of the founding members of the intentional community The Simple Way in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Known for:
The Irresistible Revolution (2006)
Jesus for President (2008)
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