Shane Claiborne Quotes About Church

Quotes about: Church

• We don't actually have rich and poor together instead we have a family. What does it mean? If you have resources, you hold them with open hands. The mark of the early church was that they began sharing and it said there were no needy persons among them. They ended poverty as they created this new loving community.

  Shane Claiborne

  Mean, Hands, Community

  "Embracing the Margins". Interview with Matt Dabbs, wineskins.org. November 17, 2015.

• I had come to see that the great tragedy in the church is not that rich Christians do not care about the poor but that rich Christians do not know the poor...I truly believe that when the rich meet the poor, riches will have no meaning. And when the rich meet the poor, we will see poverty come to an end.

  Shane Claiborne

  Christian, Believe, Tragedy

• To refer to the Church as a building is to call people 2 x 4's.

  Shane Claiborne

  People, Church, Building

• When the church takes affairs of the state more seriously than they do Jesus, Pax Romana becomes its gospel and the president becomes the Son of God.

  Shane Claiborne

  Jesus, Son, Church

  Shane Claiborne, Chris Haw (2009). “Jesus for President”, p.166, Harper Collins

• The history of the church has been largely a history of "believers" refusing to believe in the way of the crucified Nazarene and instead giving in to the very temptations he resisted--power, relevancy, spectacle.

  Shane Claiborne

  Believe, Giving, Temptation

  Shane Claiborne, Chris Haw (2009). “Jesus for President”, p.166, Harper Collins

• Our churches should attract the people Jesus attracted and frustrate the people Jesus frustrated.

  Shane Claiborne

  Jesus, People, Frustrated

  Shane Claiborne, Tony Campolo (2012). “Red Letter Revolution: What If Jesus Really Meant What He Said?”, p.133, Thomas Nelson Inc

• It is a dangerous day when we can take the cross out of the church more easily than the flag. No wonder it is hard for seekers to find God nowadays.

  Shane Claiborne

  Church, Flags, Wonder

  Shane Claiborne (2006). “The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical”, p.193, Harper Collins

• There are congregations on nearly every corner. I'm not sure we need more churches. What we need is a church. I say one church is better than fifty. I have tried to remove the plural form churches from my vocabulary, training myself to think of the church as Christ did, and as the early Christians did. The metaphors for her are always singular - a body, a bride. I heard one gospel preacher say it like this, as he really wound up and broke a sweat: "We've got to unite ourselves as one body. Because Jesus is coming back, and he's coming back for a bride not a harem.

  Shane Claiborne

  Christian, Jesus, Thinking

• The future of the church is also about looking back and looking at where we see these wonderful renewals and what we can learn from the early church. I think it is a really exciting time where Phyllis Tickle said every few hundred years the church needs a rummage sale where we can get rid of some of the clutter.

  Shane Claiborne

  Thinking, Years, Church

  "Embracing the Margins". Interview with Matt Dabbs, wineskins.org. November 17, 2015.

• We're not church planters. We are community planters and, as we work in our communities, we join local churches.

  Shane Claiborne

  Community, Church, Planters

  "Interview with Shane Claiborne on Common Prayer". www.readthespirit.com. 2012.

• I would love to see the Church on the right side of history.

  Shane Claiborne

  Church, Sides

  Source: medium.com

• There is an innocence or purity that we see in renewals and in the Mennonite church and a new an invigorated civil rights movement.

  Shane Claiborne

  Rights, Church, Movement

  "Embracing the Margins". Interview with Matt Dabbs, wineskins.org. November 17, 2015.

• There is real value in these local congregations. For me, a lot of it is the value of the sacraments we share. In neighborhoods like ours, the churches provide stability.

  Shane Claiborne

  Real, Church, Share

  "Interview with Shane Claiborne on Common Prayer". www.readthespirit.com. 2012.

• I am convinced that if we lose kids to the culture of drugs and materialism, of violence and war, it's because we don't dare them, not because we don't entertain them. It's because we make the gospel too easy, not because we make it too difficult. Kids want to do something heroic with their lives, which is why they play video games and join the army. But what do they do with a church that teaches them to tiptoe through life so they can arrive safely at death?

  Shane Claiborne

  War, Kids, Army

  Shane Claiborne (2010). “The Irresistible Revolution: Living As an Ordinary Radical”, p.177, ReadHowYouWant.com

• I have this certain reluctance when it comes to this idea that we are spiritual but not religious and we want Jesus but not the church. Why can't we have both?

  Shane Claiborne

  Spiritual, Religious, Jesus

  "Interview with Shane Claiborne: Embracing the Margins". Interview with Matt Dabbs, wineskins.org. November 17, 2015.

• This common prayer project has taken years of energy, but we see it not as a way to leave our individual churches, but as a movement we hope to see permeate the larger Church.

  Shane Claiborne

  Prayer, Taken, Years

  "Interview with Shane Claiborne on Common Prayer". www.readthespirit.com. 2012.

• When I think of some of the great renewals in the church I think of folks like St. Francis and Clare of Assisi who, through their lifestyle, were challenging the patterns of materialism and militarism and it affected the Christianity of their age.

  Shane Claiborne

  Thinking, Challenges, Age

  "Embracing the Margins". Interview with Matt Dabbs, wineskins.org. November 17, 2015.

• With the early Christians you couldn't have God as your father unless you have the church as your mother. This isn't accepting the church as a perfect thing.

  Shane Claiborne

  Christian, Mother, Father

  "Embracing the Margins". Interview with Matt Dabbs, wineskins.org. November 17, 2015.

• 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 with the story and the prayer life of the larger Church.

  Shane Claiborne

  Prayer, Years, Church

  Interview with David Crumm, www.readthespirit.com. May 11, 2012.

• Jesus is challenging that when addressing "who is your neighbor" and he has a lot of hard things to say about family, "unless you hate your own family you are not going to be a disciple." He is challenging the limits of our compassion and our love as if someone's kid suffers it should be as devastating to us as if it were our own kid. That is what the early church said.

  Shane Claiborne

  Jesus, Hate, Kids

  "Interview with Shane Claiborne: Embracing the Margins". Interview with Matt Dabbs, wineskins.org. November 17, 2015.

• As my friend said that when people say the church is full of hypocrites, he says we always have room for more.

  Shane Claiborne

  Hypocrite, People, Church

  "Interview with Shane Claiborne: Embracing the Margins". Interview with Matt Dabbs, wineskins.org. November 17, 2015.

• I do believe that the Church is God's primary instrument for ushering in the Kingdom (God's dream) on earth as it is in heaven, but God is not limited to use only the Church, or only Christians for that matter.

  Shane Claiborne

  Christian, Dream, Believe

  "Plotting goodness together: An interview with Shane Claiborne". Interview with Jonathan Merritt, religionnews.com. May 22, 2013.

• When it comes to the big issues like immigration, everyone has a role. The government has a role. The church has a role. Every Christian has a role.

  Shane Claiborne

  Christian, Government, Issues

  "Embracing the Margins". Interview with Matt Dabbs, wineskins.org. November 17, 2015.

• The church is a place where broken people can fall in love with a beautiful God.

  Shane Claiborne

  Beautiful, Falling In Love, People

  "Embracing the Margins". Interview with Matt Dabbs, wineskins.org. November 17, 2015.

• It is the church's responsibility, the government's responsibility, and the personal responsibility of every one of us to love.

  Shane Claiborne

  Responsibility, Government, Church

  "Plotting goodness together: An interview with Shane Claiborne". Interview with Jonathan Merritt, religionnews.com. May 22, 2013.

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