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You're here, you're breathing, you are the recipient of an extraordinary act of generosity called life.

Rob Bell

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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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Generosity
Breathing
Extraordinary
Called
Life

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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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When you forgive somebody, when you are generous, when you withhold judgment, when you love and when you stand up to injustice, you are, in that moment, bringing heaven to earth.
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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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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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Something is profoundly wrong and we are desperate for justice, for restoration and for somebody somewhere to do something about this.
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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 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.
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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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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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My interest is in what's true, where is the life, where is the heart and what inspires.
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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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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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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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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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We need to return to the simplicity that God is love.
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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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It often appears that those who talk the most about going to heaven when you die talk the least about bringing heaven to earth right now, as Jesus taught us to pray: 'Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.' At the same time, it often appears that those who talk the most about relieving suffering now talk the least about heaven when we die.
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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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People received, affirmed and experienced grace in many different forms.
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That breath that you just took, that's a gift!
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