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The thought of the word church and the word marketing in the same sentence makes me sick.

Rob Bell

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Rob Bell
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: August 23
Author
Non-Fiction Writer
Theologian
Ingham County
Michigan
Sick
Word
Church
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Thought
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Marketing
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I believe that God is love. I believe that Jesus came to show us this love, to give us this love, to teach us about this love, so that we could live in this love and extend it to others.
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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.
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Many people need a new rewiring of their heart and mind.
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When the lab rats hear the bell ringing, they freeze. That's what fear does to you - fear stops you dead in your tracks. Fear can keep you from harm, but fear can also rob you of your potential. Fear can rob you of an experience. Fear can rob you of happiness. Fear can rob you of real life... Darkness has a way of scaring us.
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It is better to be fully present and rested and engaged for one thing than rushed, distracted, and scattered for ten.
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There's way too much wonder and mystery all around us to not stay open to more that's going on here. You can wake up, and sense and feel and taste and hear a whole world right here within this one, right here in this breath you're about to take.
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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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Questions are not scary. What is scary is when people don’t have any. What is tragic is faith that has no room for them.
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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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Sociologically, large groups of people don't generally have massive changes in their belief instantaneously.
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Celebrity seems totally at odds with authentic community and honest, real sorts of relationships.
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Christian is a great noun and a poor adjective
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What we believe about heaven and hell is incredibly important because it exposes what we believe about who God is and what God is like.
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To be honest with you, I am passionate about all the people out there who want to know Jesus, they want to know God, and they are sick of a system that is hung up on a bunch of things that have nothing to do with the love of God.
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When we get to what happens when we die, we don't have any video footage. So let's at least be honest that we are speculating, because we are.
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You're here, you're breathing, you are the recipient of an extraordinary act of generosity called life.
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To me some of the greatest writing is when somebody puts something in words that you felt and experienced and you go, that's it.
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It's as if Thomas Kinkade and Dante were at a party, and one turned to the other sometime after midnight and uttered that classic line You know, we really should work together sometime.
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The interactions I have are with people who are very kind and very grateful and they say very overwhelming things to me. Somebody who doesn't like what I do or doesn't understand it, then it wasn't for them.
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The first word about you is that you received this life.
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