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Robert Holmes "Rob" Bell Jr. (born August 23, 1970) is an American author, speaker and former pastor. Bell was the founder of Mars Hill Bible Church located in Grandville, Michigan, which he pastored until 2012. Under his leadership Mars Hill was one of the fastest-growing churches in America. He is also the author of the New York Times bestseller Love Wins and the writer and narrator of a series of spiritual short films called NOOMA. In 2011, Time Magazine named Bell on its list of the 100 Most Influential People in the World.

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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.

Beautiful, Generosity, Hopeful, Kindness, Mean, Outlook

It often takes suffering and lost in order to remind us of how precious life is.

Inspiring, Order, Precious, Remind, Suffering

If this understanding of the good news of Jesus prevailed among Christians, the belief that Jesus’s message is about how to get somewhere else, you could possibly end up with a world in which millions of people were starving, thirsty, and poor; the earth was being exploited and polluted; disease and despair were everywhere; and Christians weren’t known for doing much about it. If it got bad enough, you might even have people rejecting Jesus because of how his followers lived. That would be tragic.

Christian, Followers, Jesus, Polluted, Somewhere Else, Starving

Hope. People want hope. We crave hope. We long for hope. Hope has been present since the very beginning. And almost in the worst situations of human history, you often find the greatest amount of hope. The very nature of the situation, the way stepped-on people created within them even more hope than when things were going fine. Hope has always been around.

Worst Situation, Long, People, Greatest, Fine

When you forgive somebody, when you are generous, when you withhold judgment, when you love and when you stand up to injustice, you are, in that moment, bringing heaven to earth.

Forgiveness, Inspirational, Judgment, Love, Stand, Withhold

I believe that God is love. I believe that Jesus came to show us this love, to give us this love, to teach us about this love, so that we could live in this love and extend it to others.

Believe, Give, Giving, Jesus, Love

Creating and sharing beautiful things has provided me with the inspiration that we can do things we never thought we could do and that we will get to see wonderful things we never thought we would see.

Beautiful, Creating, Inspiration, See

One truth is that suffering raises profound questions with the universe. The other truth is that grace, gift and generosity also raise profound questions.

Generosity, Gift, Grace, Inspiring, Profound

We need to return to the simplicity that God is love.

Love, Needs, Return, Simplicity

Everybody is following somebody. Everybody has faith in something and somebody. We are all believers.

Believer, Everybody, Faith, Following, Have Faith, Somebody

I believe our world desperately needs Good News.

Believe, Good, Needs, Our World

I do a meet and greet after every show in which I tell the audience that I would love to thank every single one of them for coming. Which a lot of people take me up on! So I get to meet hundreds and hundreds of people every night, night after night.

Audience, Night, People, Take Me

Many people confuse religion with God and walk away from them both. The point isn't Christianity, the point is being a Christian.

Christian, People, Christianity, Away, Point, Confuse

My parents were both very intellectually honest, straightforward, and for them, faith meant that you were fully engaged.

Parent, Honest, Straightforward, Faith, Parents, Engaged

I'm very comfortable in a room with thousands of people.

Comfortable, People, Rooms, Thousands

opening up your soul to someone, letting them into your spirit, thoughts, fears, future, hopes, dreams. . . that is being naked.

Dream, Future, Hopes, Opening Up, Soul

We're rediscovering Christianity as an Eastern religion, as a way of life.

Christianity, Eastern, Rediscovering, Religion, Way

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.

God, Pastor, People, Psychologically, Toxic

This breath, and this moment, and this life is a gift and we are all in this together. We all have countless choices every day to close down or stand up straight and open up, and take a big breath and say YES to the gift.

Choices, Life Is, Moment, Straight, Together, Yes

I believe that God is with you, that there is a presence. I believe this God is for you. I don't think the universe is a cold, dead place that is indifferent.

Believe, Cold, Dead, Think, Thinking

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