Jesus did not send us into the world to make believers but to make disciples. — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
The time has come for a new kind of conversation, a new kind of Christianity, a new kind of revolution. — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
We're not church planters. We are community planters and, as we work in our communities, we join local churches. — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
It is the church's job, as Dr. [Martin Luther] King says, to be the conscience of the state, not the chaplain of… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
[Jesus] said that they will know we are Christians - not by our bumper stickers and T-shirts - but by our love. — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
Christians pretty much live like everybody else, they just sprinkle a little Jesus in along the way. — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
“But if you ask the average person how Christians live, they are struck silent.” — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
I like how someone once said being a Christian is not about having new ideas but having new eyes. This is the… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
We can also cling to the treasures of our faith and get rid of the things that are cluttering that. It is… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
The world is looking, not for Christians who are perfect, but for Christians who are honest and who are willing to be… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
I have this certain reluctance when it comes to this idea that we are spiritual but not religious and we want Jesus… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
“Church father Ignatius said that if our church is not marked by caring for the poor, the oppressed, and the hungry, then… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
“Few people are interested in a religion that has nothing to say to the world and offers them only life after death,… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
When it comes to the big issues like immigration, everyone has a role. The government has a role. The church has a… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
Christians who have had so much to say with our mouths and so little to show with our lives. I am sorry… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
In closing, to those who have closed the door on religion - I was recently asked by a non-Christian friend if I… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
“Clarence Jordan, co-founder of Koinonia Farm, wrote, “The Good News of the resurrection is not that we shall die and go home… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
The future of the church is also about looking back and looking at where we see these wonderful renewals and what we… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
“So often we think it is our job to push people, and it really is a lack of faith that the Spirit… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
“Desmond Tutu, a South African bishop and leader in the movement to end apartheid, said, “I don’t preach a social gospel; I… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
Christianity can be built around isolating ourselves from evildoers and sinners, creating a community of religious piety and moral purity. That’s the… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
“few years ago, the Barna Group, a prominent research company, went to every state in the US and asked young non-Christians what… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
“What if evangelical mega churches became known around the world for things like providing water access for entire countries or fighting to… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
There are congregations on nearly every corner. I'm not sure we need more churches. What we need is a church. I say… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
I always tell our community that we should attract the people Jesus attracted and frustrate the people Jesus frustrated. It's certainly never… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
“the church was an international institution long before globalization.” — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
Faith is believing in the impossible because we have a God who is master of impossible. — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
“There are far too many Christians who believe that theological conformity is a prerequisite for community.” — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
“We’ve got to unite ourselves as one body. Because Jesus is coming back and he’s coming back for a bride, not a… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
We have been mentored from the very beginning by Catholic folks who are invigorating the best of the monastic spirit. — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
Certainly the institutional church is ill. It's hemorrhaging young people at an astronomical rate. — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
As my friend said that when people say the church is full of hypocrites, he says we always have room for more. — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
“We have placed such idolatrous faith in our ability to protect ourselves that we call it more courageous to die killing than… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
“Interestingly, Jesus did not send us into the world to make believers but to make disciples. You can worship Jesus without doing… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
“We have not shown the world another way of doing life. Christians pretty much live like everybody else, they just sprinkle a… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
When the church takes affairs of the state more seriously than they do Jesus, Pax Romana becomes its gospel and the president… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
“So there goes Jesus spinning power on its head again. His power was not in crushing but in being crushed, triumphing over… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
We know the Church wasn't born 200 years ago. It's encouraging to see some of the post-denominational churches actually wanting to reconnect… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
“As Don Everts says in his book Jesus with Dirty Feet, “Referring to the church as a building is like referring to… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
We're not church planters. We are community planters and, as we work in our communities, we join local churches. — Shane Claiborne Copy Share
There are some - called 'death fatigue' - people who just grow so tired of death, so they don't want to keep perpetuating death… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share
Every 70-year-old needs a young person in their lives to mentor, and every 20-year-old needs a senior. — Shane Claiborne Copy Share
I just have a more holistic sense of what it means to be for life, knowing that life does not just begin at conception… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share
We think of justice sometimes as getting what you deserve, you know - what crime was committed and what is the punishment for that… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share
Mother Theresa said it is not how much we give that is important but how much love you put into doing it. So it… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share
“If you find yourself climbing the ladder of success, be careful or else on your way up you might pass Jesus on his way… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share
We need good laws, but no law can change a human heart - only God can do that. — Shane Claiborne Copy Share
We're remembering each other's heroes, too. We are learning each other's songs. We are reminding ourselves that we are a global family praying together.… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share
There is a certain power when old and young come together - we can do more together than we can on our own. — Shane Claiborne Copy Share
You can't really learn God's hope like you learn the logic of an argument or the details of a story. It's more like learning… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share
“Clarence Jordan, co-founder of Koinonia Farm, wrote, “The Good News of the resurrection is not that we shall die and go home with him,… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share
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