the irresistible revolution: part ll

more quotes from the irresistible revolution by shane claiborne...
(chapter 2)
(you can read part l here which has quotes from the
foreward, author's note, introduction, and chapter 1)

"they reminded us that we all need each other and assured
us that if we all shared with one another, there
would be enough for everyone." (57)
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"maybe they were angels, though they didn't look like the
pictures in sunday school" (61)
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"the body of Christ was alive, no longer trapped in stained-glass
windows or books of systematic theology. the body of Christ
was literal, living, hungry, thirsty, bleeding." (62)
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"the church became something we are- an organism,
not an organization. (62)"
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"and yet amid all the spiritual movement, we kept bumping into
this other thing people still called church, and i wasn't sure what to
make of it. it seemed so far from the Scriptures, so far from the poor,
so far from Jesus." (63)
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"at that moment we decided to stop complaining about the church
we saw, and we set our hearts on becoming the church we dreamed of." (64)
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"we knew we could end poverty." (64)
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"he wants to ask why God allows all of this poverty and
war and suffering to exist in the world. and his friend says, "well,
why don't you ask?" the fellow shakes his head and says he is scared.
when his friend asked why, he mutters "i'm scared God will ask
me the same question." (64-65)
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"we do indeed have a God of resurrection, a God who can
create beauty from the messes we make of the world." (67)