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Summary: My #1 Read in 2008
Comment: Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith
My top read in 2008 gave me a very fresh look at my Christian Faith and the Notes at the back of the Book lead to some very exciting reading such as The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life In Godwhich is heading to be my top Book in 2009.
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Summary: Emerging Views on Christianity
Comment: Rob Bell does a fabulous job in wresting with tranditional Chritianity. He makes you think and I promise, you will not e able to put Velvet Elvis down.
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Summary: Anti-Christian babbling
Comment: If you want your "itching ears" scratched, if you want all things to be true in some mystical way or another, if you want truth to be ultimately unknowable and always relative, please subscribe to the teaching of this new age "teacher."
Bell states there is no virgin birth? Ooops! We just departed from orthodoxy, as well as made it impossible for Jesus to be born out of the line of Adam (and, therefore, sinless)!
Bell does not believe that the 300 folks who cannonized the Bible could actually tell which books of the Bible were inspired? So, according to Bell, we can't REALLY know that the Bible is actually God's word...it's for each generation to interpret, according to the dictates of their own culture.
The Bible states that we are NOT to be conformed to this world (Ro 12). The Bible teaches that the Word of the lord stands forever. Jesus taught that HE is the truth. The Bible states that the Holy Spirit will guide us into all truth. Bell gets it all backwards.
Bell so desperately wants to be seen as something new and different, he rejects the very heart of the Gospel. In the end, it's all just a best-guessing game, acording to Bell.
Here we go down the long slippery slope...
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Summary: READ THIS BOOK!!
Comment: Before I decided to read this book my friends kept telling me, "If you're comfortable with your faith, don't read this book," to which I replied, "If you're comfortable with your faith then something is wrong." If we don't challenge our faith, then how will we ever develop spiritually?
That's exactly what this book is about: challenging and questioning our faith. Bell takes us into the world of questioning ALL THINGS in search of truth. Question yourself, question the church, question your beliefs, question religious principles and doctrines, question culture, and even question the Holy Bible and how we use it.
Along with Bell's profound insights and wisdom, he provides an abundant list of commentary, references, resources, and literature to explore certain points more in depth. This book will challenge you. It may even change you. Above all else, this book will help bring you more in-tune with God.
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Summary: Rob Bell Shows Us More
Comment: Througout his book, Bell reiterates the theme that ""One of the central assertions of the Christian worldview is that there is `more.' " (19) Over and over he gives us deeper and deeper ways to think about the gospel, evangelism, denominational differences, and how we live our lives on a daily basis. No matter which side of the postmodern issue you are on, you will find much food for thought. He writes in a casual, yet profound style that keeps the interest of the reader and draws that reader into a more relevant understanding of being a Christian.
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