Repainting the Christian Faith
By: Rob Bell Format: Hardcover, Printed |
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Synopsis: We know there’s something more. We sense it, we feel it, we know it. And we want it. We want an authentic spirituality.
Click for product description and detailsISBN: 031026345X, ISBN-13: 9780310263456, UPC: 025986263454
Suggested Uses: Spiritual GrowthAges: Adult
Related Product Types: Emerging Church & Contemporary Issues,
Faith & Doubt
Critical Praise for Velvet Elvis:"God doesn't change, but times do, and Rob Bell, founding pastor of Mars Hill Bible Church in Michigan, believes new times call for us to remain open and flexible, living with passion and conviction....An advocate of a postmodern approach to faith, Bell is vulnerable about his own struggles with doubt and understanding Scripture. Joy, awe, raw honesty, and an appreciation for the mystery of faith permeate the pages." —
Christianity Today "Rob Bell is able to draw more depth out of the New Testament than I thought possible....I would have finished this book in record time if I didn't have to put it down so often just so I could sit back and process what I was learning. Buy two copies, one for you and one to pass around." —
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We know there’s something more. We sense it, we feel it, we know it. And we want it. We want an authentic spirituality.
Description: We have to test everything. I thank God for anybody anywhere who is pointing people to the mysteries of God.
But those people would all tell you to think long and hard about what they are saying and doing and creating. Test it. Probe it. Do that to this book. Don’t swallow it uncritically. Think about it. Wrestle with it. Just because I’m a Christian and I’m trying to articulate a Christian worldview doesn’t mean I’ve got it nailed. I’m contributing to the discussion.
God has spoken, and the rest is commentary, right?
Book & Bible Cover Size: LargePage Count: 208
Size: 6.4 wide x 8.5 high x 0.7 deep in. | 162 wide x 216 high x deep 17 mm
Weight: 0.835 lb | 378 gms
Available: August 2005
WorldStrategic Alliance: Flannel
Publisher: Zondervan
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Bell, pastor of Mars Hill Bible Church in Grand Rapids, Mich., offers an innovative and intriguing, if uneven, first book. This introduction to the Christian faith is definitely outside the usual evangelical box. Bell wants to offer "a fresh take on Jesus"—a riff that begins with the assertion that Jesus wanted to "call people to live in tune with reality" and that he "had no use for religion." Bell invites seekers into a Christianity that has room for doubts (his church recently hosted an evening where doubters were invited to ask their hardest, most challenging questions). He mocks literalists whose faith seems to depend on a six-day creation, and one of his favorite people is a woman who turned up repeatedly at his church, only to tell him that she totally disagreed with his teachings. He cites his church as a place of forgiveness, mystery, community and transformation. Bell is well-versed in Jewish teachings and draws from rabbinic wisdom and stories freely. His casual, hip tone can grate at times, and his footnotes, instructing readers to drop everything and read the books that have influenced him, grow old. Still, this is faithful, creative Christianity, and Gen-Xers especially will find Bell a welcome guide to the Christian faith. (Aug.)
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