I just closed Velvet Elvis. It was worth the read. I’m not going to do a whole review kind of thing but, I will say I very much enjoyed Rob Bell’s story. I mostly enjoyed hearing his personal struggle through faith and church leadership. He’s a great story teller. I was captivated by his telling of Christ as Rabbi. The controversial part?! Doctrine. His liberty with core doctrines is just that…his liberty with core doctrines. They are true or they are not. The only controversial thing was its existence in his book…not the ideas themselves. They didn’t have the weight they needed to really be controversial. Actually, they seemed kind of like straw men.
I can’t watch movies twice. I can’t read books twice. I might be able to read this one again. It was motivational. I agree with Rob that the Christian faith needs to be repainted. The repainting that it is in need of is not due to poor theology. It is due to believers who choose not to follow, Christians who are self-consumed and selfish, and a church who quit trying to be covered by the dust from the sandals of Christ.
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