Love Wins could potentially change everything! This brand new book by Rob Bell - could just be the most unifying, interfaith, conservative Christian book to come out of this messy age of religion since... maybe... the Bible? Who knows? This book is exactly what the conservative Christian tribe needs to thrust them into this inspiring new world created by Jesus over 2,000 years ago.
A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived.
Rob Bell addresses one of the most controversial issues of faith—the afterlife—arguing, would a loving God send people to eternal torment forever…? With searing insight, Bell puts hell on trial, and his message is decidedly hopeful—eternal life doesn’t start when we die; it starts right now. And ultimately, Love Wins.
God asks for our heart.
Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together. One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question: “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?”
Jesus replied: "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind." This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: "Love your neighbor as yourself. All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments." --Matthew 22:34-40
Jesus came proclaiming God's love for us, asking us anew to give our hearts to God; but the religious authorities of the day, in cahoots with the government, got rid of him, because he was perceived as a threat to their establishment. In 2007, conservative Christians named Rob Bell #10 on their list of "The 50 Most Influential Christians in America" as chosen by The Church Report readers and online visitors. Is the Bell still ringing true? How will the conservative Christian community receive Bell after they read his new book, Love Wins?
Rob Bell is an author, pastor, innovative, dynamic person who presents a deeper Biblical vision for discovering the richer, more majestic and true, and more spiritually satisfying way of understanding heaven, hell, God, Jesus, salvation, and what it means to come to Jesus. The "good news" is way better than we ever imagined.
Rob Bell was interviewed by Lisa Miller of Newsweek March 14, 2011, the day before the book release; and thus began a moment of contemplation for many Christian leaders around the world. God is not willing that any should perish. Will God have His way? Or will the religious authorities of the day have their way? Does Love Win for everyone? Or does this message get ignored in the same way the good news of the Bible is ignored by many?
Then I heard the Lord asking, "Whom should I send as a messenger to this people? Who will go for us?" I said, "Here I am. Send me." --Isaiah 6:8
What do I see? I see a man whos says 'Here am I, Lord, send me!' I will ring that bell with you Pastor Bell. I believe Bell is proclaiming a truth felt within the heart of millions of Christians who are afraid to speak up about the fact that they can no longer accept the hell and brimstone message they've been taught in the past. Afraid of losing their worship community and possibly a few friendships should they break rank, they remain silent instead. I know I have lost friends over my beliefs, but I keep loving everyone anyway - and to borrow a phrase from Rob Bell "You're Next!" :)
The stubborn theological nincompoops of today, and the people who listen to them, can be as stubborn as the ones who were alive at the time of Jesus. Soon, I fear, the accusations will begin ....'false teaching' ....'heretic' ...'blasphemy' ....'heterodox' or 'unorthodox', etc.... and just like that, they will miss their opportunity to move the ship toward the way of Jesus! They may have developed too much pride over the years to change their evil ways. But in the end? Love Wins.
What would happen if we believed in
Love instead of hell? Seriously.
Order Love Wins, by Rob Bell - release date March 15th, 2011.
Here's Rob Bell in the Love Wins promo video:
Love Wins, by Rob Bell, release date March 15, 2011
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Thanks for the comment on mysticism, we need to expand our awareness of all things spiritual, philosophical and physical. The more we know, the less we realize how much we don't know. In the end all of life, in all its forms, is a search for the ultimate ground of existence, it's a process of developing the personality into something majestic, this I believe, is one of the supreme purposes of life.
The journey you describe is probably much more accurate than the journey most of us find ourselves on. Maybe what we're searching for is a path that allows us the freedom to make mistakes, to develop the personality without fear, to feel the love and grace we need to carry us when the mistakes or circumstances in life are too big to deal with alone. It's way more complex than that, and the temptation is to settle in a comfy spot along the path and tell ourselves, yes, this is where I belong, but they are only delaying the inevitable. Others are not satisfied with that type of existence, and so their search continues.
Posted by: Sheila | March 25, 2011 at 11:23 AM
In his new book "Love Wins" Rob Bell seems to say that loving and compassionate people, regardless of their faith, will not be condemned to eternal hell just because they do not accept Jesus Christ as their Savior.
Concepts of an afterlife vary between religions and among divisions of each faith. Here are three quotes from "the greatest achievement in life," my ebook on comparative mysticism:
(46) Few people have been so good that they have earned eternal paradise; fewer want to go to a place where they must receive punishments for their sins. Those who do believe in resurrection of their body hope that it will be not be in its final form. Few people really want to continue to be born again and live more human lives; fewer want to be reborn in a non-human form. If you are not quite certain you want to seek divine union, consider the alternatives.
(59) Mysticism is the great quest for the ultimate ground of existence, the absolute nature of being itself. True mystics transcend apparent manifestations of the theatrical production called “this life.” Theirs is not simply a search for meaning, but discovery of what is, i.e. the Real underlying the seeming realities. Their objective is not heaven, gardens, paradise, or other celestial places. It is not being where the divine lives, but to be what the divine essence is here and now.
(80) [referring to many non-mystics] Depending on their religious convictions, or personal beliefs, they may be born again to seek elusive perfection, go to a purgatory to work out their sins or, perhaps, pass on into oblivion. Lives are different; why not afterlives? Beliefs might become true.
Rob Bell asks us to reexamine the Christian Gospel. People of all faiths should look beyond the letter of their sacred scriptures to their spiritual message. As one of my mentors wrote "In God we all meet."
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