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
“the church was an international institution long before globalization.” — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
The church is a place where broken people can fall in love with a beautiful God. — 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
The best critique of what is wrong is the practice of something better. So let's stop complaining about the church we've experienced… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
There is real value in these local congregations. For me, a lot of it is the value of the sacraments we share.… — 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
With the early Christians you couldn't have God as your father unless you have the church as your mother. This isn't accepting… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
It is the church's responsibility, the government's responsibility, and the personal responsibility of every one of us to love. — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
The history of the church has been largely a history of "believers" refusing to believe in the way of the crucified Nazarene… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
It is a dangerous day when we can take the cross out of the church more easily than the flag. No wonder… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
There is a movement bubbling up that goes beyond cynicism and celebrates a new way of living, a generation that stops complaining… — 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
We don't actually have rich and poor together instead we have a family. What does it mean? If you have resources, you… — 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
Jesus is challenging that when addressing "who is your neighbor" and he has a lot of hard things to say about family,… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
I had come to see that the great tragedy in the church is not that rich Christians do not care about the… — 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
“Perhaps one of the most powerful things the contemporary church could do is to confess our sins to the world, the humbly… — 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
There is an innocence or purity that we see in renewals and in the Mennonite church and a new an invigorated civil… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
There are financial bankruptcies in many parts of the church. No question about that. But we see the possibility of reimagining and… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
I do believe that the Church is God's primary instrument for ushering in the Kingdom (God's dream) on earth as it is… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
Our churches should attract the people Jesus attracted and frustrate the people Jesus frustrated. — 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
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
The church is like Noah's ark. It stinks, but if you get out of it, you'll drown. — 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
That is the power of the Eucharist. At the communion table you have rich and poor together in the early church and… — 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
This common prayer project has taken years of energy, but we see it not as a way to leave our individual churches,… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
When I think of some of the great renewals in the church I think of folks like St. Francis and Clare of… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
I am convinced that if we lose kids to the culture of drugs and materialism, of violence and war, it's because we… — 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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
It's not that hard to say slavery is wrong after we've abolished it. — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
We need good laws, but no law can change a human heart - only God can do that. — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
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 Image
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