Because with every action, comment, conversation, we have the choice to invite Heaven or Hell to Earth. Rob Bell More Quotes by Rob Bell More Quotes From Rob Bell If we are serious about loving someone, we have to surrender all the desires within us to manipulate the relationship. Rob Bell loving-someone serious desire The vibrant, real historic Christian faith is very wide and leaves lots and lots of room for varying perspectives. It's very diverse and wide, that's part of it's strength, life and vibrancy. Rob Bell perspective real christian What does happen constantly with all kinds of people I meet is they say "I had this encounter with Jesus, can you help me understand it..." The labels, more than ever, simply aren't big enough to contain what the cosmic Christ is up to in the world. Rob Bell labels people jesus My experience is that lots of people go to church, sing the songs, tell the story, etc but have profound ambivalence about God. Rob Bell song profound people The historical orthodox Christian faith is extremely wide and diverse. Rob Bell orthodox historical christian 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 and a man. Rob Bell men-and-women fidelity men When the female voice is repressed and stifled, the entire community can easily find themselves cut off from the sacred feminine, depriving themselves of the full image of god. Rob Bell sacred-feminine cutting voice Many of the most significant moments in our lives come not because it all went right but because it all fell apart Rob Bell significant our-lives moments Salvation is the entire universe being brought back into harmony with its maker. Rob Bell harmony salvation makers The great German scholar Helmut Thielicke once said that a person who speaks to this hour’s need will always be skirting the edge of heresy, but only the person who risks those heresies can gain the truth. Rob Bell gains risk needs You're here, you're breathing, you are the recipient of an extraordinary act of generosity called life. Rob Bell extraordinary breathing generosity Love is giving up control. It’s surrendering the desire to control the other person. The two—love and controlling power over the other person—are mutually exclusive. If we are serious about loving someone, we have to surrender all the desires within us to manipulate the relationship. Rob Bell giving-up love-is sex 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 we do definitively put God into words, we have at that very moment made God something God is not. Rob Bell mysterious language christian We need a childlike trust that God is good... ultimately we are OK. That is a simple, beautiful pure thing that can be complicated ferociously by all sorts of intellectual categories. Rob Bell intellectual simple beautiful 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. Rob Bell heaven reality jesus Agape doesn't love somebody because they're worthy. Agape makes them worthy by the strength and power of its love. Agape doesn't love somebody because they're beautiful. Agape loves in such a way that it makes them beautiful. Rob Bell agape-love beautiful way Atoms are a relationship of energy. You are a relationship of energy interacting with another person who is another complex relationship of energy. We all exchange more than words with each other. . . We are made of the same substance as rocks and stars. .. We are an exotic cocktail living on this planet. .. We live in this universe which is a self-transcending reality Rob Bell rocks stars reality To make it really clear and simple, let's call this movement across history we see in passages like the ones we just looked at from Exodus and Deuteronomy clicks. What we see is God meeting people at the click they're at, and then drawing them forward.When they're at F, God calls them to G.When we're at L, God calls us to M.And if we're way back there at A, God meets us way back there at A and does what God always does: invites us forward to B. Rob Bell drawing simple people If anybody didn't have a messiah complex, it was Jesus. Rob Bell messiah godly jesus Christian is a great noun and a poor adjective Rob Bell nouns adjectives christian
