Shane Claiborne Quotes About Community

Quotes about: Community

• 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.

• Christianity can be built around isolating ourselves from evildoers and sinners, creating a community of religious piety and moral purity. That’s the Christianity I grew up with. Christianity can also be built around joining with the broken sinners and evildoers of our world crying out to God, groaning for grace. That’s the Christianity I have fallen in love with.

  Shane Claiborne

  Religious, Creating, Our World

  Shane Claiborne (2010). “The Irresistible Revolution: Living As an Ordinary Radical”, p.196, ReadHowYouWant.com

• This is what Jesus had in mind: folks coming together, forming close-knit communities and meeting each other's needs-- no kings, no major welfare systems, no presidents necessary. His is a theology and practice for the people of God, not a set of suggestions for empire.

  Shane Claiborne

  Jesus, Kings, Practice

  Shane Claiborne, Chris Haw (2009). “Jesus for President”, p.90, Harper Collins

• If the people of God were to transform the world through fascination, these amazing teachings had to work at the center of these peculiar people. Then we can look into the eyes of a centurion and see not a beast but a child of God, and then walk with that child a couple of miles. Look into the eys of tax collectors as they sue you in court; see their poverty and give them your coat. Look in to the eys of the ones who are hardest for you to like, and see the One you love. For God loves good and bad people.

  Shane Claiborne

  Children, Couple, Teaching

  Shane Claiborne, Chris Haw (2009). “Jesus for President”, p.95, Harper Collins

• Jesus taught us a prayer of community and reconciliation, belonging to a new people who have left the land of 'me'.

  Shane Claiborne

  Jesus, Prayer, Land

• The work of community, love, reconciliation, restoration is the work we cannot leave up to politicians. This is the work we are all called to do.

  Shane Claiborne

  Community, Restoration, Politician

  Shane Claiborne, Tony Campolo (2012). “Red Letter Revolution: What If Jesus Really Meant What He Said?”, p.184, Thomas Nelson Inc

• I always tell our community that we should attract the people Jesus attracted and frustrate the people Jesus frustrated. It's certainly never our goal to frustrate, but it is worth noting that the people who were constantly agitated were the self-righteous, religious elite, the rich, and the powerful. But the people who were fascinated by him, by his love and grace, were folks who were already wounded and ostracized — folks who didn't have much to lose, who already knew full well that they were broken and needed a Savior.

  Shane Claiborne

  Religious, Jesus, Powerful

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

• That is part of our critique of some of the charity and service work is that we can still keep relationships at a distance by creating programs that offer services but we don't really create a reconciled community.

  Shane Claiborne

  Distance, Creating, Community

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

• 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

  People, Community, Stuff

  Shane Claiborne, Tony Campolo (2012). “Red Letter Revolution: What If Jesus Really Meant What He Said?”, p.67, Thomas Nelson Inc

• Little movements of communities of ordinary radicals are committed to doing small things with great love.

  Shane Claiborne

  Great Love, Community, Ordinary

  Shane Claiborne (2010). “The Irresistible Revolution: Living As an Ordinary Radical”, p.19, ReadHowYouWant.com

• 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.

• When we were starting our community a bunch of older Benedictine nuns said to us, "If you have any questions or want to pick our brains, please do - we've been doing community for about 1,500 years together so we've learned a few things."

  Shane Claiborne

  Years, Community, Brain

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

• The love that makes community is the willingness to do someone else's dirty work.

  Shane Claiborne

  Dirty, Community, Dirty Work

  Shane Claiborne, Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove (2009). “Becoming the Answer to Our Prayers: Prayer for Ordinary Radicals”, p.68, InterVarsity Press

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