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
When people use the word hell, what do they mean? They mean a place, an event, a situation absent of how God… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
What does happen constantly with all kinds of people I meet is they say "I had this encounter with Jesus, can you… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
I got into pastoring because of the art form. I started a church, but I felt the art form needed to be… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
For many, 'desire' is a bad word, something we're supposed to 'give up for God.' That kind of thinking can be really… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
I think the church needs – I think this is the world we are living in and we need to affirm people… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
My experience as a pastor is lots of people have really toxic, dangerous, psychologically devastating images of God in their head, images… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
God gives us what we want. For people who want nothing to do with peace, joy, reconciliation and peace... God will give… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
We live in a world where we have friends, neighbors, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, people we journey with for years who are… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
Sociologically, large groups of people don't generally have massive changes in their belief instantaneously. — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
My experience is that lots of people go to church, sing the songs, tell the story, etc but have profound ambivalence about… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
People have a view of a God who is terrible that they can't even imagine being loving or wanting anything to do… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
God then makes people whom he puts right in the middle of all this loaded creation. Commanding them to care for creation,… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
The interactions I have are with people who are very kind and very grateful and they say very overwhelming things to me.… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
I do a meet and greet after every show in which I tell the audience that I would love to thank every… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
Often the people most concerned about others going to hell when they die seem less concerned with the hells on earth right… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
Culture is already there and the church will continue to be even more irrelevant when it quotes letters from two thousand years… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
What is God like? Because millions and millions of people were taught that the primary message - the center of the Gospel… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
It's absurd and quite tragic the way people have managed to pit science against faith. They aren't in conflict at all -… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
To make it really clear and simple, let's call this movement across history we see in passages like the ones we just… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
And this reality extends beyond this life. Heaven is full of forgiven people. Hell is full of forgiven people. Heaven is full… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
I believe God gives people the right to say no, to resist, to refuse, to reject, to cling to their sins, to… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
And a lot of times, the religious discussion is almost a masquerade for the real question, is what stories that we tell… — 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
