Rob Bell Quotes

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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…
• 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.
• The fundamental story arc of the Bible is God is passionate about rescuing this world, restoring it, renewing it.
• If anybody didn't have a messiah complex, it was Jesus.
• Because with every action, comment, conversation, we have the choice to invite Heaven or Hell to Earth.
• Love demands freedom. It always has, and it always will. We are free to resist, reject, and rebel against God's ways for us. We can…
• We shape our God, and then our God shapes us.
• If this understanding of the good news of Jesus prevailed among Christians, the belief that Jesus’s message is about how to get somewhere else, you…
• 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…
• I think the church needs – I think this is the world we are living in and we need to affirm people wherever they are.
• Often times when I meet atheists and we talk about the god they don’t believe in, we quickly discover that I don’t believe in that…
• The thought of the word church and the word marketing in the same sentence makes me sick.
• We're rediscovering Christianity as an Eastern religion, as a way of life.
• 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…
• Any time someone makes you feel guilty about how you are living, that is part of the old system (pre-Christ).
• 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…
• The historical orthodox Christian faith is extremely wide and diverse,
• God is bigger than the Christian faith.
• The Christian faith is mysterious to the core. It is about things and beings that ultimately can't be put into words. Language fails. And if…
• It is trusting that I am loved. That I always have been. That I always will be. I don't have to do anything. I don't…

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