Posted on 02/26/2015 3:36:12 PM PST by Jan_Sobieski
Rob Bell, the widely popular and controversial former megachurch pastor, is now convinced that a church doesn’t support same-sex marriage will "continue to be even more irrelevant." Bell made the comments on an episode of Oprah Winfrey's "Super Soul Sunday," where he appeared with his wife Kristen to talk about religion and spirituality.
"One of the oldest aches in the bones of humanity is loneliness," Bell said. "Loneliness is not good for the world. Whoever you are, gay or straight, it is totally normal, natural and healthy to want someone to go through life with. It's central to our humanity. We want someone to go on the journey with." Bell notes that Christianity is evolving and that many Christians have already opened their hearts to the idea that two people of the same sex would choose to journey together.
In fact, he says the church’s acceptance of gay marriage is “inevitable."
"I think culture is already there and the church will continue to be even more irrelevant when it quotes letters from 2,000 years ago as their best defense, when you have in front of you flesh-and-blood people who are your brothers and sisters, and aunts and uncles, and co-workers and neighbors, and they love each other and just want to go through life," he said.
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Rob Bell is a test for the Christian Church...a test that most of the Christian world is failing ...
Malachi 3:2 But who may abide the day of his coming ? and who shall stand when he appeareth ? for he is like a refiner's fire, and like fullers ' soap:
Sodom thought God’s commandments were quite irrelevant as well. Remind me how that turned out.
It sounds like the boy had his bell rung one too many times.
FReeper IronJack: A church that DOES support homosexual “marriage” is not a church.
Crypto atheist. He’s bugged about the loneliness because he never let Christ come near, I greatly fear.
His name came up somewhere last week. He’s really run off the rails. Maybe he’s trying to be as crazy as he can imagine.
Never mind the antediluvian world.
I don’t know this guy, but could positions like this be why he’s a “FORMER PASTOR?”
I predict a warm future for Mr Bell, very, very warm indeed.
The message of Jesus Christ should be as clear as the church bell on Sunday morning.
Empty puffing on his part.
That is well put.
And I’d hate to think of what kind of lust Bell would exhibit towards the human Christ anyhow.
Rob Bell is clearly off his rocker.
God needs to apologize to Sodom and Gamorrah.
Better saved than relevant.
He has a whole host of views that are contrary to orthodox (small “o”) Christianity. I read recently that he regards himself as a “mystic” and “seeker.”
The late David Wilkerson was given an end-times vision.
This is the sermon that described what he saw. The
sermon became a book called, “The Vision” The message is one
all Christians should hear. (About 30 minutes in length for
all 4 parts)
The vision was in 1973...
DAVID WILKERSON’S THE VISION PART 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnbpGCrc1zg
DAVID WILKERSON’S THE VISION PART 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0L5VPwHDwEg
DAVID WILKERSON’S THE VISION PART 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4i6q07j59k
DAVID WILKERSON’S THE VISION PART 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4i6q07j59k
I have been asked to use his Nooma videos to teach with. I always felt each video was a little off but could never identify a specific theological error. Maybe the Holy Spirit was warning me.
Bell obviously believes political correctness is greater than Scripture. I wonder how well that will work out for him at the Pearly Gates. He is part of the “magic marker” religious movement where you take the marker and simply blot out the verses of the Bible that you don’t like.
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