Review of Rob Bell’s Love Wins (Part 9)
Chapter 6: There are Rocks Everywhere The main question in this chapter is whether or not God is inclusive or exclusive. Bell is opening the door to a more inclusive God through several stories, questions and scriptures that seem to support his point. He starts the chapter with a friend of his who had a […]
Review of Rob Bell’s Love Wins (Part 8)
Chapter 5: Dying to Live Best chapter in the book. The middle of this chapter contains a very well stated and succinct take on God’s victory over sin and death and the implications that has on our lives. It is a chapter of hope. It is a chapter of love. He skillfully paints a picture […]
Review of Rob Bell’s Love Wins (Part 7)
Chapter 4: Does God Get What God Wants? [At the end of this post is my take on whether or not Bell is a universalist…hopefully you won’t just scroll down there and read that first.] What does God desire? Bell starts off with mentioning a few verses: all people to be saved and to come […]
Review of Rob Bell’s Love Wins (Part 6)
Chapter 3: Hell New Testament concept of hell: Bell starts this discussion with the word “Gehenna” that is translated “hell” in the New Testament. He points out that this valley was used as a garbage dump in Jesus’ day. That is a point that is apparently in dispute (see Bob’s link from the previous post […]
Review of Rob Bell’s Love Wins (Part 5)
Chapter 3: Hell This chapter is split into two parts (hell in the Old Testament and in the New Testament) and I am going to handle each part in a separate post. I am not out to get Rob Bell or attack him or be antagonistic. I am really trying to read this book as […]
Review of Rob Bell’s Love Wins (Part 4)
Chapter 2: Here is the New There This chapter had a lot more going for it than chapter one. There were a lot more moments I was in total agreement with him than I had been in the preface and in chapter one. I really like the point he was making that heaven really isn’t […]
Review of Rob Bell’s Love Wins (Part 3)
Chapter 1: What About the Flat Tire? It seems to me the purpose of this chapter is to deconstruct as many things as possible and leave the reader pretty discombobulated. Maybe that is because that is where many people already are and he is trying to resonate with people who have some of these same […]
Review of Rob Bell’s Love Wins (Part 2)
Bell begins Love Wins by laying out some common ground with some thoughts few would disagree with, “First, I believe that Jesus’ story is first and foremost about the love of God for every single one of us. It is a stunning, beautiful, expansive love, and it is for everybody, everywhere.” (p. vii) Next, he […]
Review of Rob Bell’s Love Wins (Part 1)
First, I am very happy to see that BWIII is reviewing this book. He always does a phenomenal job. As I read Love Wins I have some challenges in how I can approach sharing any thoughts on it. I am an analytical thinker and this book is hard to dissect that way. So I hesitate […]
Rob Bell on MSNBC Regarding “Love Wins”
Thanks to Jim West for pointing this out. This is a video of Martin Bashir interviewing Rob Bell regarding his new book. Just after the three minute mark it sounds like Bell is admitting that his book is based on speculation, “Now how exactly that works out and how exactly that works out in the […]