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“God is bigger than the Christian faith.”

Quote by Rob Bell

Book:Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith

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Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith

This book delves into the author's reinterpretation of Christian faith, offering a fresh perspective on traditional teachings and practices through a modern lens. more

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Rob Bell is an American author recognized for his contemporary Christian theology and his popular books on spirituality. Born on August 23, 1970, Bell has authored numerous books that have ignited discussions on faith, religion, and culture. more

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“The Christian faith is mysterious to the core. It is about things and beings that ultimately can't be put into words. Language fails. And if we do definitively put God into words, we have at that very moment made God something God is not.”

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Book:Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith

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“It is trusting that I am loved. That I always have been. That I always will be. I don't have to do anything. I don't have to prove anything, or achieve anything, or accomplish one more thing. That, exactly as I am, I am totally accepted, forgiven, and there is nothing I could ever do to lose this acceptance.”

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Book:Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith

Source: Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith

“This is misguided and toxic and ultimately subverts the contagious spread of Jesus' message of love, peace, forgiveness and joy that our world desperately needs to hear.”

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Book:Love Wins: At the Heart of Life’s Big Questions

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“It often appears that those who talk the most about going to heaven when you die talk the least about bringing heaven to earth right now, as Jesus taught us to pray: 'Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.' At the same time, it often appears that those who talk the most about relieving suffering now talk the least about heaven when we die.”

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Author:Rob Bell

“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.”

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Author:Rob Bell

“I would say that the powerful, revolutionary thing about Jesus' message is that he says, 'What do you do with the people that aren't like you? What do you do with the Other? What do you do with the person that's hardest to love?' . . . That's the measure of a good religion, is - you can love the people who are just like you; that's kind of easy. So what Jesus does is takes the question and talks about fruit. He's interested in what you actually produce. And that's a different discussion. How do we love the people in the world that are least like us?”

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“The ancient Hebrews had a word for this awareness of the importance of things. They called it kavod. Kavod originally was a business term, referring to the heaviness of something, which was crucial in weights and measures and the maintaining of fairness in transactions. Over time the word began to take on a more figurative meaning, referring to the importance and significance of something.”

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Author:Rob Bell

“The world is desperately in need of people who will break themselves open and pour themselves out for the reconciliation of all things- that's what the world needs.”

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Author:Rob Bell

“Christian is a great noun and a poor adjective”

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Book:Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith

Source: Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith

“When people use the word hell, what do they mean? They mean a place, an event, a situation absent of how God desires things to be. Famine, debt, oppression, loneliness, despair, death, slaughter--they are all hell on earth. Jesus' desire for his followers is that they live in such a way that they bring heaven to earth. What's disturbing is when people talk more about hell after this life than they do about Hell here and now. As a Christian, I want to do what I can to resist hell coming to earth.”