“The book came out of me, I came out of them”

Such profound and well thought out words. Thank you Rob Bell. I am glad that there is such a man to quote such intelligent things for us fellow believers to follow. Listening to Rob Bell make a fool of himself and the rest of us lately has made want to vomit. Seeing him and his postmodern, trendy self makes me want to show up at his door with pitchforks and torches. I guess that is an inappropriate response and my real response should be to witness to him and show him truth. However, I may or may not be filled with anger when seeing his face lately.

It is not only his flawed theology, but it is the fact that he sucks at speaking. For example, the above quote, “The book came out of me, I came out of them...” Wow. Really? My first question is, you birthed a book? That takes some talent and I am not quite sure how that came about. Secondly, who is this “them” that is spoken of? I sure as heck hope that he is not speaking about the Christian body here. I do not think that many people would want to give birth to him.

In response to Bell's new found religion:

“We should have an entire nunnery just for Rob Bell.”

An entire nunnery just to pray for Rob Bell. I think that's a great thought Kelly, thank you for coming up with that. However, I do not think that one nunnery would be enough. We might need to get the universal Catholic church in on it. He's going to heaven anyway though, so I guess it doesn't really matter.

On a serious note about his responses though...

He was asked, “Does your God really care about his people and is not really sovereign?” or “Is your God sovereign and does not really care?” And he really had no response to this. In fact, he left it open ended and did not ask if there were any other possibilities. My question is, why would he hurt so many people by neglecting such an important question? His response does not only hurt himself and people in his close circle, but it also hurts the more broad church. He is putting words into the rest of our mouths. That is quite upsetting to me and quite selfish of him. He has been such an icon in the Christian world for such a long time and it is depressing to see that he is bring the rest of us down with him. I do not want to be a part of this band wagon. However, I suppose the good that does come from this is the conversations that we can have with people. It will be challenging and obnoxious, but necessary … especially after this whole ordeal. We'll see how this test goes.