To me some of the greatest writing is when somebody puts something in words that you felt and experienced and you go, that's it. Rob Bell More Quotes by Rob Bell More Quotes From Rob Bell Christian is a great noun and a poor adjective Rob Bell nouns adjectives christian You turn the light on, you get all kinds of bugs. Rob Bell bugs light kind This is why for thousands of years Christians have found the cross to be so central to life. It speaks to us of God's suffering, God's pain, God's broken heart. It's God making the first move and then waiting for our response. Rob Bell pain christian moving 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 who's not good. Rob Bell toxic pastor people On the Sabbath- we are reminded that we are not human doings, but human beings. Rob Bell doings sabbath humans I'm interested in painting the most beautifully compelling pictures and images and metaphors and stories and explanations possible that will put Jesus in language for a world that desperately needs to hear it. Rob Bell stories needs jesus When I talk about the God who is with us, for us, and ahead of us, I'm talking about our facing that which most terrifies us about ourselves, embracing it and fearing it no longer, refusing to allow it to exist separate from the rest of our being, resting assured that we are loved and we belong and we are going to be just fine. Rob Bell assured fine talking 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. I think the ship has sailed and I think the church needs -- I think this is the world we are living in and we need to affirm people wherever they are. Rob Bell men people thinking It takes quite a spine to turn the other cheek. It takes phenomenal fortitude to love your enemy. It takes firm resolve to pray for those who persecute you. (with reference to Matthew 5) Rob Bell fortitude praying enemy We're rediscovering Christianity as an Eastern religion, as a way of life. Rob Bell eastern christianity way Whether we are reading the Bible for the first time or standing in a field in Israel next to a historian and an archaeologist and a scholar, the Bible meets us where we are. That is what truth does Rob Bell israel reading doe Your job is the relentless pursuit of who God made you to be. And anything else you do is sin and you need to repent of it. Rob Bell fresh-start jobs needs The cross is God taking on flesh and blood and saying, Me too. Rob Bell flesh blood jesus I embrace the term 'evangelical,' if by that we mean a belief that we together can actually work for change in the world, caring for the environment, extending to the poor generosity and kindness, a hopeful outlook. That's a beautiful sort of thing. Rob Bell kindness beautiful mean God then makes people whom he puts right in the middle of all this loaded creation. Commanding them to care for creation, to manage it, to lovingly use it, to creatively order it... They are environmentalists. Being deeply connected with their environment is who they are. For them to be anything else or to deny their divine responsibility to care for all that God has made would be to deny something that is at the core of their existence. This is why litter and pollution are spiritual issues. Rob Bell responsibility spiritual order The fundamental story arc of the Bible is God is passionate about rescuing this world, restoring it, renewing it. Rob Bell passionate fundamentals stories A lot of Christians have been taught a story that begins in chapter 3 of Genesis, instead of chapter 1. If your story doesn't begin in the beginning, but begins in chapter 3, then it starts with sin, and so the story becomes about dealing with the sin problem. So Jesus is seen as primarily dealing with our sins. Rob Bell christian stories jesus What is God like? Because millions and millions of people were taught that the primary message - the center of the Gospel of Jesus - is that God is going to send you to hell, unless you believe in Jesus. And so, what gets, subtlely, sort of caught and taught is that Jesus rescues you from God. But what kind of God is that; that we would need to be rescued from this God? How could that God ever be good; how could that God ever be trusted? And how could that ever be good news. Rob Bell believe people jesus For many, 'desire' is a bad word, something we're supposed to 'give up for God.' That kind of thinking can be really destructive because it teaches people to deny their hearts, their true selves. Rob Bell giving-up heart thinking What we believe about heaven and hell is incredibly important because it exposes what we believe about who God is and what God is like. Rob Bell important heaven believe
