Posted in Emerging Church, Emergent Church, Emerging / Emergent Church, Study Resources, Rob Bell, Books and Authors, Theology on May 9th, 2008
These came from a book sale in a mall
Rob Bell - Velvet Elvis
Dan Kimball - Emerging Worship
Dan Kimball - The Emerging Church
Doug Pagitt and Tony Jones (editors) - An Emergent Manifesto of Hope
David F. Wells - Above All Earthly Powers
And these are from Baker Book House (round one!)
Scott M. Gibson - Preaching the Old […]
Posted in Brian McLaren, Church, Emerging / Emergent Church, Books and Authors, Rob Bell, Theology on Dec 28th, 2007
Willow Creek is inviting Brian McLaren to speak at their upcoming Shift conference. This post will be very odd because I love what I hear from D.A. Carson and I dislike most of what I hear from Brian McLaren very much.
It is indeed sad to see Willow inviting McLaren to influence their flock. I […]
Posted in Church, Emerging / Emergent Church, Books and Authors, Rob Bell, Theology on Dec 26th, 2007
At the Christianity Today blog Out of Ur, Chad Hall writes (Part 1 and Part 2) about the influence of young Christian leaders like Rob Bell and Mark Driscoll. He seeks to answer the question: Are these “new bishops” the result of a generation searching for leaders outside traditional church structures, or are […]
Posted in How You Got Here, Rob Bell on Dec 14th, 2007
Nothing funny this week. I will have to follow up on any link found between Francis Schaeffer and Bob Dylan. Rob Bell continues to be a big draw, and with the story on him in TIME this week I’m sure that will continue.
This week’s search terms that led some of you to my blog:
free will […]
Posted in Emerging / Emergent Church, Rob Bell, Theology on Apr 22nd, 2007
Binding and Loosing
Jesus gave his disciples power: “I will give you the keys to the kingdom…” (Matt 16 and 18). Bell sees this as a gift that keeps on giving, reaching into our time and into our lives. “If we take Jesus seriously,” he says, “and actually see it as our responsibility to […]
Posted in Emerging / Emergent Church, Rob Bell, Theology on Apr 18th, 2007
Trampoline vs. Brickworld
The opposite of Bell’s trampoline metaphor of faith is what he calls “brickworld”. In brickworld, “you spend a lot of time talking about how right you are. Which of course leads to how wrong everybody else is. Which then leads to defending the wall.” In describing the structure of Brickworld Bell says,
“… […]
Posted in Emerging / Emergent Church, Books and Authors, Rob Bell, Theology on Apr 16th, 2007
What is lost?
Ultimately the question raised by the quote is this: What do we lose if we lose the virgin birth?
I will attempt to answer it: We lose Jesus. We lose his divinity. We lose his claims about himself and the claims of the apostles about him, and that has infinite and eternal consequences. But […]
Posted in Emerging / Emergent Church, Books and Authors, Rob Bell, Theology on Apr 9th, 2007
The Good
I commend Bell for encouraging an eschatological shift from a “when we get over yonder” to a “let’s bring heaven here” theology. He would do well, however, to remember that the previous generation was not wrong in longing for heaven, but rather in making this longing the dominant theological sentiment. Let’s not […]
Posted in Emerging / Emergent Church, Books and Authors, Rob Bell, Theology on Apr 7th, 2007
So there was this quote making its rounds on the internet from a book called “Velvet Elvis” written by Rob Bell. (I say ‘making its rounds’ because the internet is a series of tubes… in case you didn’t know. Listen to the whole thing - it’s worth it) Bell sets up a metaphor where faith […]
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