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When someone sets out to be controversial or provocative or shocking as an end in itself, I don't think that's a noble goal.

Rob Bell

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Rob Bell
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: August 23
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Non-Fiction Writer
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Ingham County
Michigan
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The great German scholar Helmut Thielicke once said that a person who speaks to this hour’s need will always be skirting the edge of heresy, but only the person who risks those heresies can gain the truth.
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The first word about you is that you received this life.
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Times change. God doesn’t, but times do. We learn and grow, and the world around us shifts, and the Christian faith is alive only when it is listening, morphing, innovating, letting go of whatever has gotten in the way of Jesus and embracing whatever will help us be more and more the people God wants us to be.
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Many people confuse religion with God and walk away from them both. The point isn't Christianity, the point is being a Christian.
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We all want to make a difference, to live in peace, to have joy each morning that we get to live this day and see what it brings.
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Something is profoundly wrong and we are desperate for justice, for restoration and for somebody somewhere to do something about this.
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The Christian faith is mysterious to the core. It is about things and beings that ultimately can't be put into words. Language fails. And if we do definitively put God into words, we have at that very moment made God something God is not.
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That breath that you just took, that's a gift!
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Because with every action, comment, conversation, we have the choice to invite Heaven or Hell to Earth.
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God is bigger than the Christian faith.
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And this reality extends beyond this life. Heaven is full of forgiven people. Hell is full of forgiven people. Heaven is full of people God loves, whom Jesus died for. Hell is full of forgiven people God loves, whom Jesus died for. The difference is how we choose to live, which story we choose to live in, which version of reality we trust.
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