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We shape our God, and then our God shapes us.

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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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.
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Being a pastor for 20 years I realized that the labels, agnostic, atheist, believer, everybody's human and everybody wants to know what kind of universe we're living in, and everybody's living according to a story.
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We're rediscovering Christianity as an Eastern religion, as a way of life.
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We need to return to the simplicity that God is love.
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The historical orthodox Christian faith is extremely wide and diverse.
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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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God gives us what we want. For people who want nothing to do with peace, joy, reconciliation and peace... God will give you what you want. I see people make unbelievably destructive choices.
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I have been told that I need to believe in Jesus. Which is a good thing. But what I am learning is that Jesus believes in me.
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This breath, and this moment, and this life is a gift and we are all in this together. We all have countless choices every day to close down or stand up straight and open up, and take a big breath and say YES to the gift.
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The world is desperately in need of people who will break themselves open and pour themselves out for the reconciliation of all things- that's what the world needs.
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Look at the size of the universe and look at what we're discovering about string theory. There's a wide-eyed sense of we're just getting started here.
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God has spoken, and everything else is commentary.
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The thought of the word church and the word marketing in the same sentence makes me sick.
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I'm interested in painting the most beautifully compelling pictures and images and metaphors and stories and explanations possible that will put Jesus in language for a world that desperately needs to hear it.
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I got into pastoring because of the art form. I started a church, but I felt the art form needed to be freed for all people. A particular religion over others was never interesting to me. I wanted to talk to people about what it means to be alive and what it means to be human.
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The danger is that in reaction to abuses and distortions of an idea, we'll reject it completely. And in the process miss out on the good of it, the worth of it, the truth of it.
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If it is true, if it is beautiful, if it is honorable, if it is right, then claim it. Because it is from God. And you belong to God.
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Sociologically, large groups of people don't generally have massive changes in their belief instantaneously.
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You can set your intention to better understand your soul, your spirit, through daily practices like prayer, yoga and meditation, etc.
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