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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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Rob Bell
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: August 23
Author
Non-Fiction Writer
Theologian
Ingham County
Michigan
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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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I believe God gives people the right to say no, to resist, to refuse, to reject, to cling to their sins, to cling to their version of their story.
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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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Fear wants us to become obsessed with some event or person in the future, a year, a month, even a day. It also wants us to look backwards not at our successes, but our short-comings and our failures. Fear losses it's grip when we stay in the now.
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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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For Jesus, heaven and hell were present realities. Ways of living we can enter into here and now. He talked very little of the life beyond this one.
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The hardness of the human heart makes no sense.
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Many people need a new rewiring of their heart and mind.
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Sociologically, large groups of people don't generally have massive changes in their belief instantaneously.
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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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Your job is the relentless pursuit of who God made you to be. And anything else you do is sin and you need to repent of it.
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My experience is that lots of people go to church, sing the songs, tell the story, etc but have profound ambivalence about 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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A lot of Christians have been taught a story that begins in chapter 3 of Genesis, instead of chapter 1. If your story doesn't begin in the beginning, but begins in chapter 3, then it starts with sin, and so the story becomes about dealing with the sin problem. So Jesus is seen as primarily dealing with our sins.
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One of the oldest aches in the bones of humanity is loneliness. I mean it's one of the things that goes way back loneliness is not good for the world. And so, whoever you are, gay or straight, it is totally normal, natural, and healthy to want somebody to go through life with. It's central to our humanity.
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