How can we worship a homeless man on Sunday and ignore one on Monday? Shane Claiborne More Quotes by Shane Claiborne More Quotes From Shane Claiborne We see God all the time here. People only hear bad things about our neighborhood. Kensington is known as the badlands. I always say you have to be careful when you call a place the badlands because that is exactly what they said about Nazareth. Nothing good can come from there. I think we see God in the margins. Shane Claiborne nazareth people thinking We need good laws, but no law can change a human heart - only God can do that. Shane Claiborne law heart needs It is the church's job, as Dr. [Martin Luther] King says, to be the conscience of the state, not the chaplain of the state. Shane Claiborne church kings jobs The love that makes community is the willingness to do someone else's dirty work. Shane Claiborne dirty-work community dirty Little movements of communities of ordinary radicals are committed to doing small things with great love. Shane Claiborne great-love community ordinary Today the logic goes something like this: 'Calling a ruler Son of God is out of style. No one really does that nowadays. We can support a president while also worshiping Jesus as the Son of God.' But how is this possible? For one says that we must love our enemies, and the other says we must kill them; one promotes the economics of competition, while the other admonishes the forgiveness of debts. To which do we pledge allegiance? Shane Claiborne support son jesus God doesn't want to change the world without you. Shane Claiborne changing-the-world want world People had taught me what Christians believe, but no one had told me how Christians live. Shane Claiborne christian believe people Love has no limits. Compassion has no party. It is the responsibility of every human being and every institution to end poverty and to interrupt injustice. Shane Claiborne party compassion responsibility God's people are not to accumulate stuff for tomorrow but to share indiscriminately with the scandalous and holy confidence that God will provide for tomorrow. Then we need not stockpile stuff in barns or a 401(k), especially when there is someone in need. Shane Claiborne community stuff people 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. Shane Claiborne expectations people world Governments can do lots of things, but there are a lot of things they cannot do. A government can provide good housing, but folks can have a house without having a home. We can keep people breathing with good health care, but they still may not really be alive. Shane Claiborne breathing government home When we truly discover how to love our neighbor as our self, Capitalism will not be possible and Marxism will not be necessary. Shane Claiborne how-to-love neighbor self I like how someone once said being a Christian is not about having new ideas but having new eyes. This is the ability to have our hearts broken with the things that break the heart of God. That is part of what it means to be a Christian. Shane Claiborne eye christian mean We have a relational problem with those who are suffering or who are different from us. All of us are most comfortable around people who are like us culturally and economically. Shane Claiborne different suffering people Faith is being idealistic, because we have made an idol out of the status quo. Shane Claiborne status-quo idols made No one has seen God, but as we love one another, God lives in us. Shane Claiborne love-one-another god-life love Our churches should attract the people Jesus attracted and frustrate the people Jesus frustrated. Shane Claiborne frustrated people jesus 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. Shane Claiborne hate christian jesus Too often we just do what makes sense to us and ask God to bless it. Shane Claiborne bless asks make-sense
