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• Your deepest, darkest sins and your shameful secrets are simply irrelevant when it comes to the counterintuitive, ecstatic announcement of the gospel. So are your goodness, your rightness, your church attendance, and all of the wise, moral, mature decisions you have made and actions you have taken.

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  Wise, Taken, Decision

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• The historical orthodox Christian faith is extremely wide and diverse.

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  Christian, Historical, Orthodox

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• Missions then is less about the transportation of God from one place to another and more about the identification of a God who is already there [...] You see God where others don't. And then you point him out. So the issue isn't so much taking Jesus to people who don't have him, but going to a place and pointing out to the people the creative, life-giving God who is already present in their midst.

  Rob Bell

  Jesus, Issues, People

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• When the lab rats hear the bell ringing, they freeze. That's what fear does to you - fear stops you dead in your tracks. Fear can keep you from harm, but fear can also rob you of your potential. Fear can rob you of an experience. Fear can rob you of happiness. Fear can rob you of real life... Darkness has a way of scaring us.

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  Fear, Real, Track

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• My experience as a pastor is lots of people have really toxic, dangerous, psychologically devastating images of God in their head, images of a God who's not good.

  Rob Bell

  People, Toxic, Pastor

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• I am for marriage. I am for fidelity. I am for love, whether it's a man and woman, a woman and a woman, a man and a man.

  Rob Bell

  Men, Men And Women, Fidelity

  "Rob Bell Comes Out for Marriage Equality" by Greg Carey, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2013.

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• What does happen constantly with all kinds of people I meet is they say "I had this encounter with Jesus, can you help me understand it..." The labels, more than ever, simply aren't big enough to contain what the cosmic Christ is up to in the world.

  Rob Bell

  Jesus, People, Labels

  Source: missionaryrenegade2013.blogspot.com

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• Our tendency in the midst of suffering is to turn on God. To get angry and bitter and shake our fist at the sky and say, "God, you don't know what it's like! You don't understand! You have no idea what I'm going through. You don't have a clue how much this hurts." The cross is God's way of taking away all of our accusations, excuses, and arguments. The cross is God taking on flesh and blood and saying, "Me too.

  Rob Bell

  Hurt, Blood, Sky

  Rob Bell (2010). “Sex God”, p.76, Harper Collins

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• So this is reality, this forgiveness, this reconciliation, is true for everybody. Paul insisted that when Jesus died on the cross, he was reconciling "all things, in heaven and on earth, to God." All things, everywhere. ...This reality then isn't something we make come true about ourselves by doing something. It is already true. Our choice is to live in this new reality or cling to a reality of our own making.

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  Jesus, Reality, Choices

  Rob Bell (2006). “Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith”, p.146, Harper Collins

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• The lesson that has been hardest for me to learn: there is nothing to prove.

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  Lessons, Hardest, Prove

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• The Bible tells a story. A story that isn’t over. A story that is still being told. A story that we have a part to play in.

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  Play, Stories, Stills

  Rob Bell (2006). “Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith”, p.66, Harper Collins

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• You can be very religious and invoke the name of God and be able to quote lots of verses and be well versed in complicated theological systems and yet not be a person who sees. It’s one thing to sing about God and recite quotes about God and invoke God’s name; it’s another be aware of the presence in every taste, touch, sound, and embrace. With Jesus, what we see again and again is that it’s never just a person, or just a meal, or just an event, because there’s always more going on just below the surface.

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  Religious, Jesus, Names

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• If the gospel isn't good news for everybody, then it isn't good news for anybody.

  Rob Bell

  News, Good News, Ifs

  Rob Bell (2006). “Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith”, p.167, Harper Collins

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• Suffering, it turns out, demands profound imagination. A new future has to be conjured up because the old future isn't there anymore.

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  Profound, Imagination, Suffering

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• To make it really clear and simple, let's call this movement across history we see in passages like the ones we just looked at from Exodus and Deuteronomy clicks. What we see is God meeting people at the click they're at, and then drawing them forward.When they're at F, God calls them to G.When we're at L, God calls us to M.And if we're way back there at A, God meets us way back there at A and does what God always does: invites us forward to B.

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  Simple, Drawing, People

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• Two of the most powerful words you can hear someone say are ‘me too.’

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  Powerful, Two, Most Powerful

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• I think what's happened in the modern world, there's a lot of people that sound very smart and it's very compelling and alluring, but it leaves you empty.

  Rob Bell

  Smart, Thinking, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The great German scholar Helmut Thielicke once said that a person who speaks to this hour’s need will always be skirting the edge of heresy, but only the person who risks those heresies can gain the truth.

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  Risk, Needs, Gains

  Rob Bell (2014). “What We Talk About When We Talk About God: A”, p.7, HarperCollins

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• Salvation is the entire universe being brought back into harmony with its maker.

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  Harmony, Salvation, Makers

  Rob Bell (2006). “Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith”, p.109, Harper Collins

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• We need a childlike trust that God is good... ultimately we are OK. That is a simple, beautiful pure thing that can be complicated ferociously by all sorts of intellectual categories.

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  Beautiful, Simple, Intellectual

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• Freedom is not having everything we crave, it's being able to go without the things we crave and being OK with it.

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  Able, Crave

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• The Bible itself is a book that constantly must be wrestled with and re-interpreted. ... Bible interpretation is colored by historical context, the reader's bias and current realities. The more you study the Bible, the more questions it raises. It is not possible to simply do what the Bible says.

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  Book, Reality, Historical

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• The Christian faith is mysterious to the core. It is about things and beings that ultimately can't be put into words. Language fails. And if we do definitively put God into words, we have at that very moment made God something God is not.

  Rob Bell

  Christian, Mysterious, Language

  Rob Bell (2006). “Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith”, p.32, Harper Collins

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• I believe our world desperately needs Good News.

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  Believe, Our World, Needs

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• I feel like I've gotten an extraordinary opportunity to experience a sort of collective humanity. If you hug many people in such a short period of days you pick up on a communal energy, almost like feeling a giant heartbeat that everyone is beating together.

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  Opportunity, People, Feelings

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