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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.

Rob Bell

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Rob Bell
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: August 23
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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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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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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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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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My experience as a pastor is lots of people have really toxic, dangerous, psychologically devastating images of God in their head, images of a God who's not good.
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Celebrity seems totally at odds with authentic community and honest, real sorts of relationships.
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God has spoken, and everything else is commentary.
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The moment God is figured out with nice neat lines and definitions, we are no longer dealing with God.
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I am for marriage. I am for fidelity. I am for love, whether it's a man and woman, a woman and a woman, a man and a man.
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Why blame the dark for being dark? It is far more helpful to ask why the light isn’t as bright as it could be.
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Your deepest, darkest sins and your shameful secrets are simply irrelevant when it comes to the counterintuitive, ecstatic announcement of the gospel. So are your goodness, your rightness, your church attendance, and all of the wise, moral, mature decisions you have made and actions you have taken.
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It's absolutely crucial that we come face to face with the power of our choices.
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If the gospel isn't good news for everybody, then it isn't good news for anybody.
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We shape our God, and then our God shapes us.
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I like to say that I practice militant mysticism. I'm really absolutely sure of some things that I don't quite know.
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We can choose the way of compassion, the way of forgiveness, the way of generosity. Or we can choose other paths and those have very real consequences in the world. This is absolutely crucial.
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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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