Zitat des Tages von Rob Bell:
Celebrity seems totally at odds with authentic community and honest, real sorts of relationships.
I believe God gives people the right to say no, to resist, to refuse, to reject, to cling to their sins, to cling to their version of their story.
The fundamental story arc of the Bible is God is passionate about rescuing this world, restoring it, renewing it.
My parents were both very intellectually honest, straightforward, and for them, faith meant that you were fully engaged.
We live in a world where we have friends, neighbors, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, people we journey with for years who are gay. And we need to love, affirm and all of us together work on the real problems that we have in the world.
Swords appear strong, but they're actually quite weak. Jesus appears weak, but he's actually quite strong.
Every generation has to ask difficult questions about what does it mean to follow Jesus.
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.
I'm interested in painting the most beautifully compelling pictures and images and metaphors and stories and explanations possible that will put Jesus in language for a world that desperately needs to hear it.
The myth of redemptive violence - Caesar, peace, and victory - is in people's bones so deeply, we aren't even aware of it. You crush the opposition; that's how we bring peace.
If there's any place where you would express your deepest doubts, it would be church.
I embrace the term 'evangelical,' if by that we mean a belief that we together can actually work for change in the world, caring for the environment, extending to the poor generosity and kindness, a hopeful outlook. That's a beautiful sort of thing.
Well, I affirm orthodox Christian faith. I affirm the Nicene Creed. I don't think I'm doing anything terribly new.
I like to say that I practice militant mysticism. I'm really absolutely sure of some things that I don't quite know.
Suffering is traumatic and awful and we get angry and we shake our fists at the heavens and we vent and rage and weep. But in the process we discover a new tomorrow, one we never would have imagined otherwise.
When someone sets out to be controversial or provocative or shocking as an end in itself, I don't think that's a noble goal.