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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.

Rob Bell

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Rob Bell
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: August 23
Author
Non-Fiction Writer
Theologian
Ingham County
Michigan
Things
World
Pour
People
Reconciliation
Desperately
Open
Break
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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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