Smashing Brickworld: Rob Bell’s "Velvet Elvis" – Part 5

Binding and Loosing
Jesus gave his disciples power: “I will give you the keys to the kingdom…” (Matt 16 and 18). Bell sees this as a gift that keeps on giving, reaching into our time and into our lives. “If we take Jesus seriously,” he says, “and actually see it as our responsibility to [...]

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Smashing Brickworld: Rob Bell’s "Velvet Elvis" – Part 4

Trampoline vs. Brickworld
The opposite of Bell’s trampoline metaphor of faith is what he calls “brickworld”. In brickworld, “you spend a lot of time talking about how right you are. Which of course leads to how wrong everybody else is. Which then leads to defending the wall.” In describing the structure of Brickworld Bell says,
“… [...]

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Smashing Brickworld: Rob Bell’s "Velvet Elvis" – Part 3

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What is lost?
Ultimately the question raised by the quote is this: What do we lose if we lose the virgin birth?
I will attempt to answer it: We lose Jesus. We lose his divinity. We lose his claims about himself and the claims of the apostles about him, and that has infinite and [...]

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Smashing Brickworld: Rob Bell’s “Velvet Elvis” – Part 2

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Smashing Brickworld: Rob Bell’s “Velvet Elvis” – Part 1

All the content of this blog has been moved to: http://michaelkrahn.com/blog/
The following content can be found by clicking below:
Richard Dawkins The God Delusion click here.
Rob Bell’s Velvet Elvis click here.
Pedro The Lion
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