{"id":15559,"date":"2011-08-31T20:17:28","date_gmt":"2011-08-31T19:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianwarnock.com\/?p=15559"},"modified":"2018-06-27T23:05:10","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T22:05:10","slug":"popular-posts-the-apostle-pauls-blogging-checklist-hell-and-rob-bell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/adrianwarnock\/2011\/08\/popular-posts-the-apostle-pauls-blogging-checklist-hell-and-rob-bell\/","title":{"rendered":"Popular Posts: The Apostle Paul&#039;s Blogging Checklist, Hell, and Rob Bell"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>During Adrian\u2019s month away from the blog, he has hand-picked a selection of the most popular posts of the year so far to re-run.<\/p>\n<p>The Apostle Paul\u2019s Blogging Checklist was a post written during the Rob Bell controversy, but it has an enduring messaage that should guide us in our online writings:<\/p>\n<h2>The Apostle Paul\u2019s Blogging Checklist, Hell, and Rob Bell<\/h2>\n<p>Now that<em> Rob Bell\u2019s <\/em>controversial book <em>Love Wins<\/em> is on sale on both sides of the Atlantic and many other comments have been made, I am feeling like I cannot avoid engaging in the controversy, or at least should read some more material to understand it better. I did not seek out such involvement, as you can see from my post which ironically listed <a href=\"..\/..\/2011\/03\/5-reasons-why-i-havent-said-anything-so-far-about-rob-bell-and-love-wins\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Five Reasons I hadn\u2019t previously blogged about Rob Bell.<\/a> Since then I have posted a couple of highly relevant articles without directly addressing Bell\u2019s work.\u00a0 These are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Permanent link to Why a belief in hell is so practically important\" href=\"..\/..\/2011\/2011\/04\/why-a-belief-in-hell-is-so-practically-important\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Why a belief in hell is so practically important<\/a> (John Piper)<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Permanent link to The folly of imagining hell is not real and sin is not deadly \u2013 Spurgeon\" href=\"..\/..\/2011\/2011\/04\/the-folly-of-imagining-hell-is-not-real-and-sin-is-not-deadly-spurgeon\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">The folly of imagining hell is not real and sin is not deadly<\/a> (Charles Spurgeon)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"..\/..\/2011\/04\/is-there-a-second-chance-for-salvation-after-death-mark-driscoll-on-hell\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Driscoll\u2019s sermon on hell taken from the Rich Man and Lazarus.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"..\/..\/2011\/04\/lloyd-jones-on-the-folly-of-thinking-god-is-only-love\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Martyn Lloyd-Jones on the folly of thinking God is only love.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I have now found a very helpful round up post on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.garydavidstratton.com\/2011\/faith-2\/cyberspace-wins-an-update-on-the-rob-bell-controversy\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Gary David Stratton\u2019s blog<\/a> that lists some of the major posts on each side of this vociferous debate. He says that over 400,000 responses are now available online, so reading every post is clearly not an option! I have been following some of the posts he lists, and have finally succumbed and am in the process of reading the book. If you have been following things more closely, and there are critical posts you think I should read that are not on Stratton\u2019s list, please let me know. There is one additional page that I have found to be interesting, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/philosophicalfragments\/2011\/03\/15\/rob-bell-interview-transcript\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">transcript of an interview by Lisa Miller with Rob Bell<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, also in Stratton\u2019s blog is a suggestion that we should use the Apostle Paul\u2019s blogging checklist\u2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>Follow this link to contiue reading<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/adrianwarnock.com\/2011\/04\/the-apostle-pauls-blogging-checklist-hell-and-rob-bell\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><strong>The Apostle Paul\u2019s Blogging Checklist, Hell, and Rob Bell<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During Adrian\u2019s month away from the blog, he has hand-picked a selection of the most popular posts of the year so far to re-run. 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