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This was one of the biggest stories of the Christian world in 2011. Rob Bell wrote a book called Love Wins<\/i>, for which he took an unending amount of crap from far too many smug, self-assured, self-proclaimed biblical scholars who \u2013 although far too many still haven\u2019t even read the book \u2013 tried their best to skewer him. John Piper\u2019s famous tweet \u201cFarewell Rob Bell,\u201d was the beginning of the criticism and, in truth, it still hasn\u2019t stopped. Never mind that the book stays within the bounds of orthodoxy and really doesn\u2019t say anything that wasn\u2019t said by the church fathers, even the reformers and more contemporary favorites like C.S. Lewis. It\u2019s a really good book & I would recommend it to anyone who is interested in something more enlightened than Left Behind<\/i>. My guess is that love wins will still be in print and enlightening readers far after the right wing radio show host\u2019s program has been cancelled. Here are the posts I did reviewing each chapter.\n

Chapter 01<\/a>
Chapter 02<\/a>
Chapter 03<\/a>
Chapter 04<\/a>
Chapter 05-06<\/a>
Chapter 07<\/a>
Chapter 08 & Summary<\/a><\/p>\n

Then came the incredible news that Rob Bell had resigned from his church. More people jumped on him. Rick Warren fired a critical tweet off, assuming Bell was leaving for the spotlight of speaking tours. What we found out later was that Rob Bell left to try his hand at moving the culture at large. He is partnering with Carlton Cuse (you can read about it here<\/a>), one of the writers from LOST to write and produce a new television drama called \u201cStronger.\u201d My guess is that it will be amazing.<\/p>\n

Rob Bell recently gave his farewell address to the Mars Hill Church which he planted and led for a decade. You can read it here<\/a>. It reads like 2 of the best chapters from a book he has yet to write. Here\u2019s a quick excerpt (below). Here\u2019s hoping that Rob Bell keeps pressing forward in the new year, and that his critics will lose their ability to snark!<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026there is a meta-movement in the scriptures, an arc to the unfolding story of redemption. it is the\u00a0movement from word to flesh\u2026\u00a0word takes on flesh. this is the story of Jesus, the word, the creative life force of the universe, taking on a\u00a0body and moving into the neighborhood. so when Jesus talks about the kind of life God has for us, he talks\u00a0about us experiencing in flesh and blood a whole new way of being. serving, caring, discovering, thanking,\u00a0forgiving, loving, tasting, embracing, doing whatever we do for the least of these. it\u2019s an embodied faith,\u00a0one that\u2019s dirty and bloody with sleeves rolled up and sweat on the brow. it\u2019s one where there\u2019s plenty of\u00a0wine at the party.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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