Brian D. McLaren Quotes
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Too often we see the Bible through whatever lens we get from our culture.
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Since I was introduced to the practice of God's presence, which in turn led me into the contemplative way, I have nearly always felt so…
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Baptism is rich in meaning. It suggests cleansing. When you are a disciple, you understand that you are cleansed by Christ. You understand that Christ…
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To be a Christian in a generously orthodox way is not to claim to have the truth captured, stuffed, and mounted on the wall
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It used to be that Christian institutions and systems of dogma sustained the spiritual life of Christians. Increasingly, spirituality itself is what sustains everything else.…
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The church has been preoccupied with the question, 'What happens to your soul after you die?' AS IF THE REASON FOR JESUS COMING CAN BE…
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Tony [Campolo] and I might disagree on the details, but I think we are both trying to find an alternative to both traditional Universalism and…
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What if Jesus' secret message reveals a secret plan?â€. What if he didn't come to start a new religion-but rather came to start a political,…
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The church latched on to that old doctrine of original sin like a dog to a stick, and before you knew it, the whole gospel…
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Jesus doesn’t dominate the other, avoid the other, colonize the other, intimidate the other, demonize the other, or marginalize the other. He incarnates into the…
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Sometimes I have experienced God in extraordinary ways - in dramatic surprises or soul-expanding insights or unexplainable mystical encounters. More often, I have felt God's…
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One of the things that's happening to a lot of us is that there's this vision of the beauty of God that transports us and…
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We need not a new set of beliefs, but a new way of believing, not simply new answers to the same old questions, but a…
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Scripture is something God had ‘let be,’ and so it is at once God’s creation and the creation of the dozens of people and communities…
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Ask me if Christianity (my version of it, yours, the Pope's, whoever's) is orthodox, meaning true, and here's my honest answer: a little, but not…
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I was relaxing in my parents' swimming pool with my brotherI asked him how the engineering business was going, and he reciprocated: 'How's the ministry…
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The Church has little idea how unorthodox it is at any given moment. If a church can't yet be perfectly orthodox, it can, with the…
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Accumulating orthodoxy makes it harder year-by-year to be a Christian than it was in Jesus' day.
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I had to face the possibility that the art of living in the way of Jesus was no longer carried on in a holistic way…
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So we must realize this: the suicidal framing story that dominates our world today has no power except the power we give it by believing…
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