Love Wins. by Rob Bell

several years ago we had an art show at our church and people brought in all kinds of sculptures and paintings and we put them on display and there was this one piece that had a quote from Gandhi in it and lots of people found this piece compelling they'd stop and sort of stare at it and take it in and reflect on it but not everybody found at that compelling somewhere in the course of the art show somebody attached a handwritten note to the piece and on the note they had written reality check he's in hell Gandhi's in hell he is and someone knows this for sure and and felt the need to let the rest of us know we'll only a few select people make it to heaven and we'll billions and billions of people burn forever in hell and if that's the case how do you become one of the few is it what you believe or what you say or what you do or who you know or something that happens in your heart or you need to be initiated or baptized or take a class or converted or being born again how does one become one of these few and then there is the question behind the questions the real question what is God like because millions and millions of people were taught but 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 subtly 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 this is why lots of people want nothing to do with the Christian faith they see it as an endless list of absurdities and inconsistencies and they say why would I ever want to be a part of that see 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 what you discover in the Bible is so surprising and unexpected and beautiful that wherever we've been told they're taught the good news is actually better than that better than we can ever imagine the good news is that love

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Keywords: Rob Bell (Author), Love Wins, Heaven (Quotation Subject), Hell (Quotation Subject), Mars Hill Bible Church (Nonprofit Organization), Pastor (Profession), Religion (TV Genre), Religious Studies (Field Of Study), Religious Text (Literary Genre), Christianity (Religion), Progressive Christianity (Religion), Brian McLaren (Author), N.T. Wright, God (Deity), Jesus Christ (Deity), HarperOne, HarperCollins (Publication)

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Length: 2min 58sec (178 seconds)

Published: Wed Mar 16 2011