"When people use the word hell, what do……" — Rob Bell
"When people use the word hell, what do they mean? They mean a place, an event, a situation absent of how God desires things to be. Famine, debt, oppression, loneliness, despair, death, slaughter--they are all hell on earth. Jesus' desire for his followers is that they live in such a way that they bring heaven to earth. What's disturbing is when people talk more about hell after this life than they do about Hell here and now. As a Christian, I want to do what I can to resist hell coming to earth."
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113 Quotes by Rob Bell
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If anybody didn't have a messiah complex, it was Jesus.
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Because with every action, comment, conversation, we have the choice to invite Heaven or Hell to Earth.
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We shape our God, and then our God shapes us.
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If this understanding of the good news of Jesus prevailed among Christians, the belief that Jesus’s message is about how…
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The thought of the word church and the word marketing in the same sentence makes me sick.
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Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in…
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The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.
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