JESUS WANTS TO SAVE CHRISTIANS FROM ROB BELL
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Dec 6, 2008 in Current Issues, Emergent Church, Features, Rob Bell
Apprising Ministries directs your attention to our sister outreach Christian Research Net for a couple of posts by CRN contributor Dave Marriott. Both concern the latest book by Rob Bell, an icon in the Emergent rebellion against Sola Scriptura slowly swallowing up evangelicalism, called Jesus Wants To Save Christians (JWtSC).
In the first called Jesus Wants To Save Christians From Rob Bell’s Teaching Marriott shares a quote from JWtSC and asks:
Will Rob follow in the footsteps of Tony Jones? There doesn’t seem to be much keeping him from it. Perhaps being “rescued from sameness and uniformity” is equivalent to “trading the truth about God for a lie?” (Online source)
And then in Jesus Wants To Save Christians From Rob Bell Marriott points out:
In his new book — excuse me, it’s not a book, rather a “manifesto for the church in exile” — amidst all the “reverse-exodus” and “anti-empire” language, mixed with a very poor theology of the Kingdom,… What Rob says may sound good on the surface. However, it’s content is problematic for the following reasons… (Online source)
See also:
WHERE DOES ROB BELL STAND REGARDING THE PRACTICE OF HOMOSEXUALITY?