Art Show Inspires Michigan Pastor Rob Bell's Controversial New Book
USA TODAY
March 14, 2011
MICHIGAN -- Young pastor Rob Bell's new book, "Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived
," has provoked weeks of fierce infighting among pastors, theologians and anyone else who scans the Christian blogosphere where critics rage that he's a hipster heretic. Inspired by an incident at an art show at his chuch, Bell shares his view "that God is love, that he sent Jesus to show us that love, that love demands freedom. So making definitive judgments about other people's destiny is not interesting to me. The heart of God is to rescue everyone from everything we need to be rescued from." [link] or [NYT]
March 14, 2011
MICHIGAN -- Young pastor Rob Bell's new book, "Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived," has provoked weeks of fierce infighting among pastors, theologians and anyone else who scans the Christian blogosphere where critics rage that he's a hipster heretic. Inspired by an incident at an art show at his chuch, Bell shares his view "that God is love, that he sent Jesus to show us that love, that love demands freedom. So making definitive judgments about other people's destiny is not interesting to me. The heart of God is to rescue everyone from everything we need to be rescued from." [link] or [NYT]
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