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Rob Bell’s Love Wins: A Response

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Kevin DeYoung offers a lengthy pastoral, scholarly, and exegetical response to Rob Bell's new book, Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived. DeYoung's summary on what the book is about: Love Wins, by megachurch pastor Rob Bell, is, as the subtitle suggests, “a book about heaven, hell, and the fate of every person who ever lived.” Here’s the gist: Hell is what we create for ourselves when we reject God’s love. Hell is both a present reality for those who resist God and a future reality for those who die unready for God’s love. Hell is what we … [Read more...] about Rob Bell’s Love Wins: A Response

Remarkable Raw Footage of the Japan Tsunami

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A prayer from John Piper: Father in heaven, you are the absolute Sovereign over the shaking of the earth, the rising of the sea, and the raging of the waves. We tremble at your power and bow before your unsearchable judgments and inscrutable ways. We cover our faces and kiss your omnipotent hand. We fall helpless to the floor in prayer and feel how fragile the very ground is beneath our knees. O God, we humble ourselves under your holy majesty and repent. In a moment—in the twinkling of an eye—we too could be swept away. We are not more deserving of firm ground than our fellowmen in … [Read more...] about Remarkable Raw Footage of the Japan Tsunami

Definite Atonement and Evangelism

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Many think that to share the gospel with non-Christians requires that we tell them, with confidence, that Jesus died for them.  John Piper posts a great little conversation showing how a Christian who embraces definite atonement (the view that Jesus Christ died specifically for all those who would ever trust in him, love him, and obey him) might go about sharing his faith with a non-Christian - and why (in my opinion) it is actually more understandable and more compelling. An excerpt (U is an unbeliever, and E is an evangelist): U: Did he do that for me? E: If you will have … [Read more...] about Definite Atonement and Evangelism

Rob Bell Dust-Up on Good Morning America

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Albert Mohler, Serene Jones (of Union Theological Seminary), and Josh Harris all make this short segment. I think Bell's book has the potential for really sifting out where Christians stand on this crucial issue on which so much is at stake -- not just who God is, but what the gospel message is, and whether the historic evangelistic motivation makes any sense. Should people be risking their lives to tell others about Jesus Christ? And what exactly (if anything) should they be told about Jesus Christ? With all the attention swirling, the publisher has moved up the release data of Love Wins … [Read more...] about Rob Bell Dust-Up on Good Morning America

Five Brief Reflections on the Rob Bell Controversy

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Updated: Short update at the end. 1. Some have questioned the appropriateness of posts like this, given that Bell’s book has not yet been published (and I’ve not read it). But I think the promo video is so damaging that it merits a public rebuke. Did you notice how glibly he cast aside the necessity of the re-birth? None less than Jesus Christ establishes the necessity of being born again (John 3:3, John 3:5) to enter the kingdom of God. [See also I Peter 1:3-7, 23.] 2. The nature of Bell's questions, as Kevin DeYoung has pointed out, is decided non-neutral. Bell is saying that a … [Read more...] about Five Brief Reflections on the Rob Bell Controversy