If the gospel isn't good news for everybody, then it isn't good news for anybody. — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
If the gospel isn't good news for everybody, then it isn't good news for anybody. And this is because the most powerful… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the reason people have a problem accepting 'the gospel' is that they sense that the God lurking behind Jesus isn't safe,… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
Your deepest, darkest sins and your shameful secrets are simply irrelevant when it comes to the counterintuitive, ecstatic announcement of the gospel.… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
Jesus is bigger than any one religion. He didn't come to start a new religion, and he continually disrupted whatever conventions or… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
“Has God created millions of people over tens of thousands of years who are going to spend eternity in anguish? Can God… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
Many people confuse religion with God and walk away from them both. The point isn't Christianity, the point is being a Christian. — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
I have met countless people who call themselves Christians who don't appear to have any living breathing vibrant connection with the resurrected… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
A lot of Christians have been taught a story that begins in chapter 3 of Genesis, instead of chapter 1. If your… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
“Jesus didn’t talk about a God who wants to burn this place down and take us somewhere else; he talked about the… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
In our culture, Christians are known for a number of other things... Rarely do you hear people say, 'Oh yeah, those are… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
“If the gospel isn't good news for everybody, then it isn't good news for anybody. And this is because the most powerful… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
I would say that the powerful, revolutionary thing about Jesus' message is that he says, 'What do you do with the people… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
“But in reading all of the passages in which Jesus uses the word "hell," what is so striking is that people believing… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
We're rediscovering Christianity as an Eastern religion, as a way of life. — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
“Some things that are labeled Christian aren’t true, and some things that aren’t labeled Christian are true. Some atheists say lots of… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
“God has to punish sinners, because God is holy, but Jesus has paid the price for our sin, and so we can… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
At the center of the Christian tradition since the first church have been a number who insist that history is not tragic,… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
“As obvious as it is, then, Jesus is bigger than any one religion. He didn't come to start a new religion, and… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
This is why for thousands of years Christians have found the cross to be so central to life. It speaks to us… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
If this understanding of the good news of Jesus prevailed among Christians, the belief that Jesus’s message is about how to get… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
If the gospel isn't good news for everybody, then it isn't good news for anybody. — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
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. — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
“This story... blasts to pieces our biases and labels with a declaration that God is on everyone's side, extending grace and compassion to everyone,… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
One truth is that suffering raises profound questions with the universe. The other truth is that grace, gift and generosity also raise profound questions. — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
For Jesus, heaven and hell were present realities. Ways of living we can enter into here and now. He talked very little of the… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
Love is what God is, love is why Jesus came, and love is why he continues to come, year after year to person after… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
I believe that God is love. I believe that Jesus came to show us this love, to give us this love, to teach us… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
If the gospel isn't good news for everybody, then it isn't good news for anybody. And this is because the most powerful things happen… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
“I don’t read the Bible like a flat line. I don’t see all of the passages in the Bible sitting equally side by side… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
To elevate abstract doctrines and dogmas over living, breathing, embodied experiences of God's love and grace, then, is going the wrong direction. It's taking… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
The modern world has created airports and hospitals and put 10,000 songs in our pocket. It has built gleaming buildings and computers and advances… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
