The church is like Noah's ark. It stinks, but if you get out of it, you'll drown.
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Shane Claiborne
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Jesus for President: Politics for Ordinary Radicals
Red Letter Revolution: What If Jesus Really Meant What He Said?
The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical
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the church was an international institution long before globalization.
__ow I think ultimately our hope is certainly that people can feel and taste the goodness of God and to find the salvation in Jesus's love and sacrifice. Sometimes the biggest barrier to that has been Christians and has been a Church that is numb to the poverty of the world or just sees our Christianity as a ticket into heaven while ignoring the hells of the world around us. And we're not willing to settle for that kind of Christianity. We believe in a kingdom that begins now and that the kingdom of God Jesus preached is not just something we're to go to when we die but that we're to bring down on earth as it is in heaven.
People always want to define you by what you do. I started saying: __ am not too concerned with what i__ going to do. I am more interested in who i am becoming. I want to be a lover of God and people.
Most good things have been said far too many times and just need to be lived.
The true atheist is the one who refuses to see God's image in the face of their neighbour.