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I think the church needs – I think this is the world we are living in and we need to affirm people wherever they are.

Rob Bell

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Rob Bell
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: August 23
Author
Non-Fiction Writer
Theologian
Ingham County
Michigan
People
Wherever
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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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People received, affirmed and experienced grace in many different forms.
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The cross is God taking on flesh and blood and saying, Me too.
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People have a view of a God who is terrible that they can't even imagine being loving or wanting anything to do with.
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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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When we deny the spiritual dimension to our existence, we end up living like animals. And when we deny the physical, sexual dimension to our existence, we end up living like angels. And both ways are destructive, because God made us human.
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The fact that we are loved and accepted and forgiven in spite of everything we have done is simply too good to be true.
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Christian is a great noun and a poor adjective
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We embrace truth wherever we find it from whoever says it however we come across it. It's a big beautiful exotic heartbreaking mysterious world we live in and it's our home and we get to explore and learn and affirm truth wherever we find it.
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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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At the center of the Christian tradition since the first church have been a number who insist that history is not tragic, hell is not forever, and love, in the end, wins and all will be reconciled to God.
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If your faith is threatened by something that's true, then it wasn't much of a faith to begin with, was it?
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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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Creating and sharing beautiful things has provided me with the inspiration that we can do things we never thought we could do and that we will get to see wonderful things we never thought we would see.
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Often the people most concerned about others going to hell when they die seem less concerned with the hells on earth right now, while the people most concerned with the hells on earth right now seem the least concerned about hell after death.
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You can be living in a big house, driving a nice car, going on exotic vacations and still be empty inside, crippled with fear and dread.
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Like a mirror, God appears to be more and more a reflection of whoever it is that happens to be talking about God at the moment.
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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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Often times when I meet atheists and we talk about the god they don’t believe in, we quickly discover that I don’t believe in that god, either.
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The first word about you is that you received this life.
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