Rob Bell

Rob Bell

"If the gospel isn't good news for everybody, then it isn't good news for anybody.”

YES! The good news is that we are all free from the grip of hell.

“As the book of James says, "God shows no favoritism." So we don't either."

YES! There is one true God, and all religions exist to bring us to Him.

"Jesus is bigger than any one religion. He didn't come to start a new religion, and he continually disrupted whatever conventions or systems or establishments that existed in his day.”

YES! Jesus' kept telling the scholars of the day that their focus on the strict letter had caused them to miss the real intention behind the laws. We too must see the spirit of what Jesus taught, not just the strict letter.

"What we do comes out of who we believe we are."

YES! We believe that our thoughts give rise to our actions, and our happiness is a result of what we do, not who we say we are.

“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"

YES! The Bible is a Divine work that has many levels of meaning, which are designed to speak to us progressively throughout our own development.

"Think about some of the words that are used in these kinds of discussions, one of the most common being the phrase “open-minded.” Often the person with spiritual convictions is seen as close-minded and others are seen as open-minded. What is fascinating to me is that at the center of the Christian faith is the assumption that this life isn’t all there is. That there is more to life than the material. That existence is not limited to what we can see, touch, measure, taste, hear, and observe. One of the central assertions of the Christian worldview is that there is “more” – Those who oppose this insist that this is all there is, that only what we can measure and observe and see with our eyes is real. There is nothing else. Which perspective is more “closed-minded?” Which perspective is more “open?"

YES! We couldn't say it better ourselves!