I just heard this quote from one of my new favorite people, Shane Claiborne. It’s out of his book, Irresistible Revolution. His latest book, Jesus For President, is very high on my to-read list.
“When the church becomes a place of brokerage rather than an organic community, she ceases to be alive. She ceases to be something we are, the living bride of Christ. The church becomes a distribution center, a place where the poor come to get stuff and the rich come to dump stuff. Both go away satisfied (the rich feel good, the poor get clothed and fed), but no one leaves transformed.”
I highly recommend you listen to the talk he gave at Mars Hill Bible Church, entitled Finding Your Calcutta. Download mp3 here.
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