Book and Study Groups

Sean Notes:

4/19/21
Hi All,

Happy Monday and hope you all are well. Looking forward to tomorrow evening, 7-8:15pm, for another evening with Rob Bell and Love Wins. We’ll be focusing our time on Chapters 5-6, with some videos sprinkled in as well.

Here is the ZOOM link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83736438160?pwd=K1RPUWlpODZoZzlpQmo2c0FDQ1cwZz09

Meeting ID: 837 3643 8160
Passcode: 562154

And, the discussion questions for our conversation and to guide your own reflections as you read:

“The cross is a reminder, a sign, a glimpse, an icon that allows us to tap into our deepest longings to be part of a new creation.” What does this mean to you? (137)
If you were Rob Bell preaching an Easter sermon, what would you say?
If Jesus himself “constantly disrupted whatever conventions or systems or establishments that existed in his day,” what purpose does religion or a church serve for us today?

See you Tuesday evening!

Sean
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Looking forward to Tuesday evening, 7pm on ZOOM. Here is the link:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88283376127?pwd=UGMza0hiQ3htUWNpeVZpMmdkM0ZvQT09

Please read the two articles (New Yorker and Mohler) I sent out recently about Rob Bell and the story behind Love Wins. Here are the links for those articles in case you need them:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/11/26/the-hell-raiser-3
https://albertmohler.com/2011/03/16/we-have-seen-all-this-before-rob-bell-and-the-reemergence-of-liberal-theology

And, last but not least, our discussion questions for tomorrow evening:

Bell was raised in a tradition—and became a prominent leader within that same tradition—in which inheriting “eternal life” meant “making it into heaven.” As the book begins, how is Bell confronting his own tradition?

What does Bell mean when he says, “Heaven, for Jesus, wasn’t less real, but more real?” (56)

What is your biggest takeaway from this opening section of Love Wins?

Email/text with any questions. See you Tuesday evening!

Sean