And then there are those whose lessons about heaven consist primarily of who will be there and who won’t be there. (p. 25) … It’s very common to hear talk about heaven framed in terms of who “gets in” or how to “get in.” (p. 50) The Emergent church peeps all play a familiar tune [...]
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Here’s where I’m at with Bell’s book: the whole thing is a house of cards. Actually, perhaps a more fitting analogy would be that it is a brick wall. Each brick represents an argument that Bell makes in favor of a limited hell. With this bricks, he’s constructed a wall, and it should be clear [...]
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If you’re going to talk about hell, it’s pretty much a given to talk about heaven. And in Love Wins, Rob Bell does. After asking a lot of questions in the first chapter, questions that any serious Christian needs to wrestle with, he jumps right in to a chapter about heaven. In the vein of [...]
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There’s something Rob Bell should be praised for: his innate ability to discern legitimate questions that can and should be asked of the Christian faith. So far as that goes, Bell is a genius. He has taken the time to really think through and identify potential holes in orthodox Christianity, specifically, as it pertains to [...]
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When the Christian world blew up a few weeks ago about Rob Bell, I didn’t know whether I was going to end up buying and reading the book or not. Despite, at one point, being a very big fan of Rob Bell (if you’d like to read other posts I’ve written where I mention him [...]
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In honor of Easter (I assume), Rob Bell – pastor of Mars Hill Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan, author of Velvet Elvis, Jesus Wants to Save Christians, and Drop Like Stars and the guy from those Nooma videos – has released a new video called Resurrection. It’s only a few minutes long. Check it out: [...]
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