Rob Bell

Rob Bell is the founding pastor of Mars Hill Bible Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He is the author of the bestselling Velvet Elvis, Sex God, Jesus Wants to Save Christians, and Drops Like Stars. A graduate of Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois, and Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California, Bell speaks to large crowds around the world and has appeared in a pioneering series of short films called NOOMA. He and his wife, Kristen, have three children.

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The Love Wins Companion

A Study Guide for Those Who Want to Go Deeper

Talking Points

ROB BELL is the Founding Pastor of Mars Hill Bible Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He is the author of the bestselling Velvet Elvis, Sex God, Jesus Wants to Save Christians, and Drops Like Stars. A graduate of Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois, and Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California, Bell speaks to sold-out crowds across the world and appeared in a pioneering series of short films called NOOMA.

Description

When pastor and bestselling author Rob Bell published Love Wins, it upset many while also changing lives as he questioned who was saved, who was not, and how it all works. Bell dared to question whether hell is forever, and asked if only Christians will go to heaven, igniting a firestorm of praise and backlash across the country. In the Love Wins Companion, Bell takes the traditional study guide format for popular books and reinvents it as an opportunity for modeling the kind of conversation and debate the church should be having.

This companion contains: Insights and commentary by experts—theologians, Bible scholars, scientists, and pastors; deep analysis of all relevant Bible passages on heaven, hell, and salvation; discussion questions for individuals, groups, and classes; excerpts from throughout Christian history illustrating the variety of positions taken over time to the issues Rob Bell wrestles with in Love Wins; and Bell’s own reflections on the debate he caused and the reaction in churches

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Christian Living

Spirituality

Love Wins

A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived

Talking Points

Rob Bell is the Founding Pastor of Mars Hill Bible Church in Grand Rapids, Michiganis. He is the only pastor or Christian speaker to go on multiple national and ticketed speaking tours to sold-out audiences. Profiled in Time and other venues, Bell is often described as the most exciting voice in the church today. With a Twitter following of 34,000, he is the most recognizable Christian leader among young adults, a pioneer among those trying to form a new kind of Christian expression.

Description

Bell brings out to the open and faces squarely the questions on everyone’s mind: Does it really make sense that God is a loving, kind, compassionate God who wants to know people in a personal way, but if they reject this relationship with Jesus, they will be sent to hell where God will eternally punish them forever?

In Love Wins Bell goes to the heart of these issues and argues that the church’s traditional understanding of heaven and hell is actually not taught by the Bible. Bell is emphatically not offering a new view of heaven and hell–instead, he closely examines every verse in the Bible on heaven and hell and shows what they really teach. And he discovers that Jesus’s most fundamental teaching about heaven and hell is, “Love wins.”

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