Rob Bell - Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian faith (2005)

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For Jesus, heaven and hell were present realities. Ways of living we can enter into here and now. He talked very little of the life beyond this one…

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And this reality extends beyond this life. Heaven is full of forgiven people. Hell is full of forgiven people. Heaven is full of people God loves, whom Jesus died for. Hell is full of forgiven people God loves, whom Jesus died for. The difference is how we choose to live, which story we choose to live in, which version of reality we trust.

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I live with the understanding that truth is bigger than any religion and the world is God's and everything in it...

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Questions are not scary. What is scary is when people don't have any. What is tragic is faith that has no room for them.

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The fact that we are loved and accepted and forgiven in spite of everything we have done is simply too good to be true.

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The Bible tells a story. A story that isn't over. A story that is still being told. A story that we have a part to play in.

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Times change. God doesn't, but times do. We learn and grow, and the world around us shifts, and the Christian faith is alive only when it is listening, morphing, innovating, letting go of whatever has gotten in the way of Jesus and embracing whatever will help us be more and more the people God wants us to be.

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Missions then is less about the transportation of God from one place to another and more about the identification of a God who is already there [...] You see God where others don't. And then you point him out. So the issue isn't so much taking Jesus to people who don't have him, but going to a place and pointing out to the people the creative, life-giving God who is already present in their midst.

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Everybody is following somebody. Everybody has faith in something and somebody. We are all believers.

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The thought of the word church and the word marketing in the same sentence makes me sick.

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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

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The moment God is figured out with nice neat lines and definitions, we are no longer dealing with God.

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It is such a letdown to rise from the dead and have your friends not recognize you.

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

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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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Salvation is the entire universe being brought back into harmony with its maker.

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If it is true, if it is beautiful, if it is honorable, if it is right, then claim it. Because it is from God. And you belong to God.

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