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Panel Discussion — Rob Bell and Love Wins

A conversation on Rob Bell’s new and controversial book, Love Wins, and why it’s important to have a biblical understanding on the doctrine of hell.

Why did I just say that?

To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven: … A time to keep silence, and a time to speak. (Ecclesiastes 3:1, 7)

I can think of so many times when I should have kept silent, but I just had to speak.

On more than one occasion I have said something, and the moment it left my lips, I thought, Why did I just say that?

And I have found myself instantly wishing I could have those words back.

What to Preach to Yourself Everyday

Then I came to the shattering realization that this isn’t what the Bible teaches, and it isn’t the gospel. What the Bible teaches is that we mature as we come to a greater realization of what we already have in Christ. The gospel, in fact, transforms us precisely because it’s not itself a message about our internal transformation, but Christ’s external substitution. We desperately need an Advocate, Mediator, and Friend. But what we need most is a Substitute. Someone who has done for us and secured for us what we could never do and secure for ourselves.

 

Comments

  2. At some point in time, ‘sheeple’ are going to have to realize that God the Holy Ghost states it perfectly clear when He said through Paul, “for we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against powers, principalities, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” Yes, even within the Church. Pray for spiritual discernment and the gift of discerning spirits, for there are many within Christendom posing as sheep when they are wolves… apostate to Biblical Christianity.

    • Winston on truth you are right on target!! The Word of God is our plumb line not the word of mans opinion!