Brian D. McLaren Quotes

• Jesús era corto en sermones, largo en conversaciones; corto en respuestas, largo en preguntas; corto en abstracción y proposiciones, largo en historias y parábolas; corto en decirte qué pensar, largo en desafiarte a pensar por ti mismo.

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  Jesus, Thinking, Long

  Brian D. McLaren (2009). “More Ready Than You Realize: The Power of Everyday Conversations”, p.11, Zondervan

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• Jesus doesn’t dominate the other, avoid the other, colonize the other, intimidate the other, demonize the other, or marginalize the other. He incarnates into the other, joins the other in solidarity, protects the other, listens to the other, serves the other, even lays down his life for the other.

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  Jesus, Intimidating, Solidarity

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• It's not about the church meeting your needs; it's about joining the mission of God's people to meet the world's needs.

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  Gente, Iglesia, Necesidades

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• The Bible is not considered an accurate, absolute, authoritative, or authoritarian source but a book to be experienced and one experience can be as valid as any other can. Experience, dialogue, feelings, and conversations are equated with Scripture while certitude, authority, and doctrine are to be eschewed! No doctrines are to be absolute and truth or doctrine must be considered only with personal experiences, traditions, historical leaders, etc. The Bible is not an answer book.

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  Book, Leader, Feelings

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• If Jesus, Moses, the Buddha and Mohammed
  were to bump into each other along the road
  and go have a cup of tea or whatever,
  I think we all know
  they would treat one another far different and far better
  than a lot of their followers would.

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  Jesus, Thinking, Tea

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• Nunca debemos subestimar nuestro poder de equivocarnos cuando hablamos de Dios, cuando pensamos en Dios, cuando imaginamos a Dios, ya sea en prosa o en poesía. Una ortodoxia generosa, en contraste con las ortodoxias tensas, estrechas o controladoras de gran parte de la historia cristiana, no se toma a sí misma demasiado en serio. Es humilde. No pretende demasiado. Admite que camina cojeando.

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  God, Christian, Humble

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• What if the Christian faith is supposed to exist in a variety of forms rather than just one imperial one? What if it is both more stable and more agile—more responsive to the Holy Spirit—when it exists in these many forms? And what if, instead of arguing about which form is correct and legitimate, we were to honor, appreciate, and validate one another and see ourselves as servants of one grander mission, apostles of one greater message, seekers on one ultimate quest?

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  Christian, Appreciate, Honor

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• When any sector of the Church stops learning, God simply overflows the structures that are in the way and works outside them with those willing to learn.

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  Work Out, Church, Way

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• What if Jesus' secret message reveals a secret plan?”. What if he didn't come to start a new religion-but rather came to start a political, social, religious, artistic, economic, intellectual, and spiritual revolution that would give birth to a new world?

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  Spiritual, Religious, Jesus

  Brian D. McLaren (2007). “The Secret Message of Jesus: Uncovering the Truth that Could Change Everything”, p.4, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Ask me if Christianity (my version of it, yours, the Pope's, whoever's) is orthodox, meaning true, and here's my honest answer: a little, but not yet. Assuming by Christianity you mean the Christian understanding of the world and God, Christian opinions on soul, text, and culture I'd have to say that we probably have a couple of things right, but a lot of things wrong, and even more spreads before us unseen and unimagined. But at least our eyes are open! To be a Christian in a generously orthodox way is not to claim to have the truth captured, stuffed, and mounted on the wall.

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  Christian, Wall, Couple

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• Sometimes I have experienced God in extraordinary ways - in dramatic surprises or soul-expanding insights or unexplainable mystical encounters. More often, I have felt God's reality in the simple encouragement of a friend, in the gentle inspiration of a sermon, or in the familiar ritual of the Eucharist and I'd be less than honest if I didn't also say that at times, I've found myself in the spiritual doldrums, cast adrift, wondering if the wind would ever blow again.

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  Spiritual, Encouragement, Inspiration

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• ... why are so many religious people arguing about the origin of the species but so few concerned about the extinction of the species?

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  Religious, People, Environmental

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• Buscamos - imperfectamente a cada paso, sin duda - una teología de la encarnación, una teología que traiga buenas noticias radicales de gran alegría para toda la gente, buenas noticias de que Dios ama al mundo y no envió a Jesús para condenarlo sino para salvarlo, buenas noticias de que la ira de Dios no es meramente punitiva sino restauradora, buenas noticias de que el fuego de la santidad de Dios no está inclinado al tormento eterno sino que siempre trabaja para purificar y refinar, buenas noticias de que donde abunda el pecado, sobreabunda la gracia.

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  Jesus, Fire, Wrath

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• We need not a new set of beliefs, but a new way of believing, not simply new answers to the same old questions, but a new set of questions.

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  Believe, Needs, Answers

  Brian D. McLaren (2010). “A New Kind of Christianity: Ten Questions That Are Transforming the Faith”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• To be a Christian in a generously orthodox way is not to claim to have the truth captured, stuffed, and mounted on the wall

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  Christian, Wall, Way

  Brian D. McLaren (2009). “A Generous Orthodoxy: By celebrating strengths of many traditions in the church (and beyond), this book will seek to communicate a “generous orthodoxy.””, p.205, Zondervan/Youth Specialties

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• Debo añadir, sin embargo, que no creo que hacer discípulos deba equivaler a hacer adeptos a la religión cristiana. Puede ser aconsejable en muchas circunstancias (¡no en todas!) ayudar a las personas a convertirse en seguidores de Jesús y permanecer dentro de sus contextos budistas, hindúes o judíos.

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  Christian, Buddhist, Jesus

  Brian D. McLaren (2005). “A Generous Orthodoxy: Why I Am a Missional, Evangelical, Post/Protestant, Liberal/conservative, Mystical/poetic, Biblical, Charismatic/contemplative, Fundamentalist/Calvinist, Anabaptist/Anglican, Methodist, Catholic, Green, Incarnational, Depressed-yet-hopeful, Emergent, Unfinished Christian”, p.293, Zondervan

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• One of the things that's happening to a lot of us is that there's this vision of the beauty of God that transports us and that takes us to a new depth and a new height. It's one of those things about beauty. You can't capture it in a word or a formula. When you get to that humble place where the beauty of God has overwhelmed you, I think it changes everything. You can say the same creed that you said before, but now it's not a creed that grasps God in the fist of the words, but it's a creed that points up to a beauty that's beyond anybody's grasp.

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  Humble, Thinking, Vision

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• Too often we see the Bible through whatever lens we get from our culture.

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  Bible, Biblical, Lenses

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• The scarily brilliant Romantic poet and visionary William Blake dared to say what many of us have perhaps thought but kept to ourselves: “A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there’s more conversation.

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  Church, Visionaries, Brilliant

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• The church latched on to that old doctrine of original sin like a dog to a stick, and before you knew it, the whole gospel got twisted around it. Instead of being God’s big message of saving love for the whole world, the gospel became a little bit of secret information on how to solve the pesky legal problem of original sin.

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  Dog, Secret, Church

  Brian D. McLaren (2012). “The Last Word and the Word after That: A Tale of Faith, Doubt, and a New Kind of Christianity”, p.186, John Wiley & Sons

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• Since I was introduced to the practice of God's presence, which in turn led me into the contemplative way, I have nearly always felt so rich, so blessed, so sincerely full of "enough."...I believe it is on this robust, overflowing ...contemplative pathway that one gains the joy and serenity to be generous.

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  Believe, Blessed, Practice

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• I’m sure I am wrong about many things, although I’m not sure exactly which things I’m wrong about. I’m even sure I’m wrong about what I think I’m right about in at least some cases.

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  Thinking, Cases, Not Sure

  Brian D. McLaren (2005). “A Generous Orthodoxy: Why I Am a Missional, Evangelical, Post/Protestant, Liberal/conservative, Mystical/poetic, Biblical, Charismatic/contemplative, Fundamentalist/Calvinist, Anabaptist/Anglican, Methodist, Catholic, Green, Incarnational, Depressed-yet-hopeful, Emergent, Unfinished Christian”, p.24, Zondervan

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• At their best, religious and spiritual communities help us discover this pure and naked spiritual encounter. At their worst, they simply make us more ashamed, pressuring us to cover up more, pushing us to further enhance our image with the best designer labels and latest spiritual fads, weighing us down with layer upon layer of heavy, uncomfortable, pretentious, well-starched religiosity.

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  Spiritual, Religious, Community

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• I had to face the possibility that the art of living in the way of Jesus was no longer carried on in a holistic way by any single tradition.

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  Jesus, Art, Faces

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• ... muchos hindúes están dispuestos a considerar a Jesús como una manifestación legítima de lo divino... muchos budistas ven a Jesús como una de las personas más iluminadas de la humanidad.... Una reevaluación compartida del mensaje de Jesús podría proporcionar un espacio único o un terreno común para un diálogo religioso que se necesita urgentemente, y no parece exagerado decir que el futuro de nuestro planeta puede depender de ese diálogo. Esta revalorización del mensaje de Jesús puede ser el único proyecto capaz de salvar a varias religiones.

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  Religious, Jesus, Buddhist

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