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An evangelical is somebody who, first of all, has a very high view of Scripture, believes it's an infallible message from God.
Tony Campolo / Pastor
Believe
Infallible
Scripture
Views
Believes
First Of All
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Rituals keep us from forgetting what must not be forgotten and keep us rooted in a past from which we must not be disconnected.
Tony Campolo / Pastor
Forget
Forgotten
Past
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In our post-Freudian world, it is no longer a goal to become people of character who live out a God-ordained ideal of selfhood.
Tony Campolo / Pastor
Character World People
Ideal
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Clinton's successor in the White House, George W. Bush, was committed to expanding government spending for faith-based initiatives.
Tony Campolo / Pastor
Government
Clinton
Committed
Expanding
Faith Based
Government Spending
House
Spending
White
White House
Government White House
Bush
George
George W
George W. Bush
Initiatives
Successor
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I propose that the government should get out of the business of marrying people and, instead, only give legal status to civil unions.
Tony Campolo / Pastor
Government
Legal
Giving
Marrying
People
Propose
Business Government People
Civil
Status
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In short, I'm not sure that the abortion problem can be solved by legislation. I think it can only be solved through moral persuasion.
Tony Campolo / Pastor
Abortion
Legislation
Moral
Persuasion
Thinking
Solved
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In the past, the Republican Party has depended on unified support at election time from Evangelical Christians. But times are changing!
Tony Campolo / Pastor
Christian
Election
Party
Past
Republican Party
Unified
Christians
Depended
In The Past
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Haitians do not need development programs imposed on them by expatriates. Instead, they need help in developing as self-assured persons.
Tony Campolo / Pastor
Developing
Development
Haitian
Needs
Self
Imposed
Programs
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I am relatively sure, from conversations that I had with former president Bill Clinton, that George Bush seldom called upon him for advice.
Tony Campolo / Pastor
Advice
Bills
Clinton
Former
President
Bill
Bill Clinton
Bush
Conversations
George
George Bush
Relatively
Seldom
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Perhaps we would do well to listen to the likes of Rabbi Harold Kushner, who contends that God is not really as powerful as we have claimed.
Tony Campolo / Pastor
Likes
Powerful
Rabbi
Claimed
Harold
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Young Evangelicals, especially, are breaking ranks with older Evangelicals (over 40) and are more and more leaning towards voting Democratic.
Tony Campolo / Pastor
Democratic
Voting
Young
Breaking
Evangelicals
Towards
Leaning
More And More
Ranks
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Evangelicals need to take a good look at what their issues are. Are they really being faithful to Jesus? Are they being faithful to the Bible?
Tony Campolo / Pastor
Jesus
Bible
Faithful
Issues
Evangelicals
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Whenever there is a catastrophe, some religious people inevitably ask, 'Why didn't God do something? Where was God when all those people died?'
Tony Campolo / Pastor
Catastrophe
Died
People
Religious
Inevitably
Religious People
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Often, we ignore the fact that our spiritual condition and psychological state of mind are highly affected by what is happening to us physically.
Tony Campolo / Pastor
Psychological
Physically
Condition
Highly
Ignore
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Prior to ROE V. WADE, abortions were common even though they were illegal. I don't think making them illegal again is going to solve the problem.
Tony Campolo / Pastor
Abortion
Illegal
Solve
Thinking
Wade
Prior
Roe
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From the beginning, there have been some religious leaders who greeted the funding of faith-based social services by government with ambivalence.
Tony Campolo / Pastor
Government
Ambivalence
Faith Based
Funding
Leader
Religious
Religious Leaders
Services
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When there is conflict between what God requires and the demands of the government, each of us has an important decision to make concerning taxes.
Tony Campolo / Pastor
Government
Conflict
Decision
Important
Concerning
Important Decision
Requires
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But I think it's up to a local congregation to determine whether or not a marriage should be blessed of God. And it shouldn't be up to the government.
Tony Campolo / Pastor
Marriage
Government
Blessed
Congregation
Determine
Thinking
Local
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I am saying that there is no salvation apart from Jesus; that’s my evangelical mindset. However, I am not convinced that Jesus only lives in Christians
Tony Campolo / Pastor
Jesus
Christian
Mindset
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The real problem that I think those of us who are evangelicals and Democrats have to face up to is that the political right controls the religious media.
Tony Campolo / Pastor
Real
Religious
Thinking
Democrats
Evangelicals
Real Problem
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If marriage really is a sacred institution, then why is the government controlling it, especially in a nation that affirms separation of church and state?
Tony Campolo / Pastor
Government
Church
Church And State
Sacred
Separation
Controlling
Institution
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When leading evangelicals say terrible things about Islam, evil things about Islam, terrible things about Muhammad, they ought to be ashamed of themselves.
Tony Campolo / Pastor
Ashamed
Evil
Islam
Muhammad
Ought
Evangelicals
Leading
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Most of us are tiptoeing through life so we can reach death safely. We should be praying, "If I should wake before I die. . . ." Life can get away from you.
Tony Campolo / Pastor
Life
Praying
Should
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What I am trying to say is that Jesus who incarnated God 2,000 years ago is mystically present and waiting to be discovered in EVERY person you and I encounter
Tony Campolo / Pastor
Jesus
Waiting
Years
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One of the problems with evangelicalism is that it has allowed itself to be married to the Republican party... Jesus is not a Republican. Nor is he a Democrat.
Tony Campolo / Pastor
Jesus
Married
Party
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Sadly, we do a much better job of making people feel guilty than we do of delivering them from the guilt we create. We need to confess this and change our ways.
Tony Campolo / Pastor
Jobs
Delivering
Guilt
People
Change Better People
Better Job
Confess
Sadly
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Even if there were no heaven and there were no hell, would you still follow Jesus? Would you follow him for the life, joy and fulfilment he gives you right now?
Tony Campolo / Pastor
Jesus
Giving
Heaven
Joy
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Like most Christians, I believe the Genesis account of creation is a description of six different stages of creation, each of which may have taken eons of time.
Tony Campolo / Pastor
Believe
Christian
Creation
Description
Genesis
Taken
Time Believe I Believe
Account
Christians
Different Stages
Stages
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When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this - when you die, will you be happy when everybody else is crying?
Tony Campolo / Pastor
Happiness
Happy
Born
Cried
Inner Peace
Matter
Everybody
Die
Be Happy
Crying
Else
Everybody Else
Matters
Question
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But isn't it time for Christians to admit that we should reject bargains if they are gained by the exploitation of the poorest of the poor in developing countries?
Tony Campolo / Pastor
Christian
Country
Developing Countries
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If a guy is intimidated by a woman in leadership, he has real problems with his own concepts of masculinity. That's a harsh statement, but I believe it to be true.
Tony Campolo / Pastor
Leadership
Believe
Concepts
Harsh
Intimidated
Masculinity
Real
Real Problems
Leadership Believe I Believe
Be True
Statement
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Jesus never says to the poor: ‘come find the church’, but he says to those of us in the church: ‘go into the world and find the poor, hungry, homeless, imprisoned.
Tony Campolo / Pastor
Jesus
Church
Homeless
World
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Most Evangelicals claim to be politically non-partisan, and say they only identify with the Republican Party because the Republicans are committed to 'family values.
Tony Campolo / Pastor
Claims
Party
Republican
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I read the Bible, I speak through issues, I see what I think is hypocrisy in the church and things that are wrong, and I speak to these things. But I could be wrong.
Tony Campolo / Pastor
Bible
Hypocrisy
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Most Evangelicals claim to be politically non-partisan, and say they only identify with the Republican Party because the Republicans are committed to 'family values.'
Tony Campolo / Pastor
Committed
Family Values
Republican Party
Claim
Evangelicals
Identify
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I teach at Eastern University, which is highly committed to doing work among the poor and the oppressed peoples of the world. We have a special commitment to the city.
Tony Campolo / Pastor
Cities
Commitment
Committed
Eastern
Oppressed
Special
Teach
University
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It's a new day for the Democrats when it comes to matters of faith, and the younger Evangelicals are aware of this and many of them are moving into the Democratic camp.
Tony Campolo / Pastor
Democratic
Matter
Moving
New Day
Younger
Camp
Evangelicals
Matters
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Women have the same privileges and opportunities as men, given the New Testament. Relegating women to second-class citizenship was abolished when Jesus died on the cross.
Tony Campolo / Pastor
Jesus
Abolish
Citizenship
Died
New Testament
Testament
Cross
Privileges
Second-Class
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Evangelical Christians, who once were a ridiculed irrelevant sectarian movement, have, over just three decades, become a powerful voting bloc that can no longer be ignored.
Tony Campolo / Pastor
Christian
Decades
Evangelical
Ignored
Irrelevant
Powerful
Voting
Christians
Ridiculed
Sectarian
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Insofar as the church fails to do the will of God, I am called upon to help it discover and to do the will of God; and I am called upon to help the government to do the same.
Tony Campolo / Pastor
Discover
Fails
Insofar
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After-school tutoring programs, care for the elderly, shelters for the homeless, disaster relief work, and a variety of other services would all benefit from government funding.
Tony Campolo / Pastor
Government
After School
Disaster
Elderly
Funding
Homeless
Relief
School
Variety
Benefit
Programs
Services
Shelters
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The reason why I buy into the Democratic Party more than the Republican Party is because there are over 2,000 verses of Scripture that deal with responding to the needs of the poor.
Tony Campolo / Pastor
Democratic
Democratic Party
Party
Reason Why
Republican Party
Responding
Scripture
Verses
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While I can see how the government has, at times, wasted taxpayers' money, and I can admit that too often its programs are ineffective, I also can see the good that government does.
Tony Campolo / Pastor
Government
Doe
Wasted Time
Good Money Government
Admit
Wasted
Ineffective
Programs
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Most Evangelicals have the church to thank for the Sunday-school classes that taught us what the Bible says and paved the way for our eventual decisions to commit our lives to Christ.
Tony Campolo / Pastor
Bible
Christ
Commit
Classes
Evangelicals
Paved
Thank
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Certain things happened in the early church. Women who had never had any freedom suddenly have the ability to stand up and speak and be treated as equals within the life of the church.
Tony Campolo / Pastor
Certain
Church
Speak
Life Freedom Women
Certain Things
Equals
Stand Up
Suddenly
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My theology is such that the God who loves Israel and will not forsake Israel - which is why I want to see Israel have a secure nation with secure borders - also loves the Palestinians.
Tony Campolo / Pastor
Borders
Forsake
Israel
Secure
Theology
Want
Loves
Palestinians
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And we've got to ask ourselves some very serious questions as to whether or not certain religious leaders, in terms of raising money - I hate to bring this up - are pushing hot buttons.
Tony Campolo / Pastor
Buttons
Hate
Leader
Pushing
Religious
Religious Leaders
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In baptism, new Christians become part of a body of fellow believers who are called to spiritually encourage one another and hold one another responsible for consistent Christian living.
Tony Campolo / Pastor
Baptism
Body
Christian
Consistent
Believers
Christians
Fellow
Spiritually
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I don't know how your theology works, but if Jesus has a choice between stained glass windows and feeding starving kids in Haiti, I have a feeling he'd choose the starving kids in Haiti.
Tony Campolo / Pastor
Jesus
Kids
Choices
Glasses
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Although I believe that scripture is divinely inspired and infallible, I have a hard time going along with the belief that the whole creation process occurred in six twenty-four hour days.
Tony Campolo / Pastor
Belief
Believe
Creation
Hard Times
Infallible
Scripture
Six
Twenties
Time Believe I Believe
Although
Divinely
Hard Time
Hour
Occurred
Twenty-Four
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