Rob Bell just spoke at a local church, Wayzata Community. You know that when the ‘church’ says that they "Follow the path of Jesus Christ, while respecting other pathways to God”, that nothing good is going to come of it. I didn’t go and listen to him talk, but a friend did and it was terrible.
"No doubt, Rob Bell writes as a pastor who wants to care for people struggling with the doctrine of hell. I too write as a pastor. And as a pastor I know that Love Wins means God’s people lose. In the world of Love Wins, my congregation should not sing “In Christ Alone” because they cannot not believe, “There on the cross where Jesus died, the wrath of God was satisfied.” They would not belt out “Bearing shame and scoffing rude, in my place condemned he stood.” No place for “Stricken, Smitten, and Afflicted” with its confession, “the deepest stroke that pierced him was the stroke that Justice gave.” The jubilation of “No condemnation now I dread; Jesus, and all in him, is mine!” is muted in Love Wins. The bad news of our wrath-deserving wretchedness is so absent that the good news of God’s wrath-bearing Substitute cannot sing in our hearts. When God is shrunk down to fit our cultural constraints, the cross is diminished. And whenever the cross is diminished we pain the hearts of God’s people and rob them of their joy." -Kevin DeYoung
DeYoung does a complete and truthful review on Love Wins, and really you only need to read a small chunk of it to see how heretical Rob Bell is. Here is another useful resource. I encourage you not to buy the book and study God’s word in context.
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