“If It Looks Like a Duck and Quacks Like a” …well you know, Tim Challies’ Review
UPDATE (04-24-11): Mart De Haan of the RBC Ministries Network, Including the Long-Standing and Popular Our Daily Bread, Has Referred to Rob Bell as a “Brother” and Considers Bell to be Quite Possibly RIGHT as Seen Here
News Media Commentator, Martin Brashir, Examines Bell’s Teachings, with a ‘Berean Book Review’ in hand… and hits the nail on the head! ☛ “You’re amending the Gospel, the Christian message, so that it’s palatable to contemporary people who find, for example, the idea of heaven and hell very hard to swallow.”
Brilliant Parody of Rob Bell’s Teachings in Love Wins
article excerpt: ”Unfortunately, the new push toward “silence” and “contemplative prayer” as it is being taught has more to do with Hindu and Buddhist style meditation and guided visualization than any Biblical template for meditation or waiting on God. It adds “breath prayers”, repetitive prayers and emptying your mind . But the only way to wait and be silent safely in this age of deceptive demonic voices is to do so with the Word of God in your lap, filling your mind with truth from it.”
article excerpt: ”It began with Rob Bell, casually dressed and hip looking, sitting on a park bench, interspersed with scenes of a street preacher, older, wearing thick glasses, scared of people, printing literature and going on the streets with a bullhorn to preach. The portrayal of this man as an unattractive, outdated offensive relic could not have been clearer, nor could Mr. Bell’s full frontal attack towards street preachers and street preaching. He makes it clear that the “bullhorn man” is not reaching anyone, he’s turning people off, and even Jesus doesn’t like what he’s doing. He goes on to say it’s better to reach people by putting our arm around them, showing we love them, preaching diversity and tolerance, etc. etc.”
Velvet Elvis also discussed here (mid-page)
article excerpt: ”Consider ROB BELL, author of Velvet Elvis. He claims that Jesus is already with people even in their false religions, thus “the issue isn’t so much taking Jesus to people who don’t have him, but going to a place and pointing out to the people there the creative, life-giving God who is already present in their midst” (Velvet Elvis, p. 88). Bell says that Christ has given believers the authority to come up with new interpretations of the Bible (Velvet Elvis, p. 50). He says the New Testament epistles “aren’t first and foremost timeless truths” (p. 62) and claims that the apostles didn’t “claim to have the absolute word from God” (p. 57).”
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