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A review by bookyjes
Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived by Rob Bell
4.0
So, I did it. I finally read Rob Bell's controversial book. And here's where I get to put in my two cents, right? And all of you will read it.
God is alive.
He used this book to remind me that He is not dead. He used this book to remind me that it doesn't matter to Him that I have ignored him for the past two months while I've been reading books. (Let's be honest, I've ignored Him for longer than that, with no real excuse. Not that an excuse to ignore God would really be valid.) God used this book to whisper up close next to me, "I'm here. Remember me? I love you."
Man, I SO needed that!
So, real review:
Rob Bell said it well in his introduction. There truly was a lot in this book that I had already heard from some other Christian reading, some other spiritual book, some other sermon, some other place. And yet, I feel like this book still needed to be written. Rob Bell comes at these weird, deep and hard questions in a way that is accessible. It's like he's saying, "I have those questions too. And I have no real idea how to answer them. Here's what I've circled around, though." It's like Madeleine L'Engle was saying in the book I read right before picking Love Wins up: most of the questions go unanswered and that's an ok thing.
I can't say that I now have a much more clear understanding of what happens after you believe in Jesus. I can't say that now I know for sure what heaven is or means or where it will be. I have my assumptions and theories based on scriptures from the Bible and discussions and sermons. But I'm a human. And I think the great thing about this book to take away, if you take away nothing else, is that Rob is trying to remind us (gently) that we are humans. How can we possibly be so arrogant as to think we know what God is up to?
I will be recommending this book, because I want to discuss it with people. I'm not in love with the book. I'm not agreeing with everything Rob said in it, or has ever said, or ever will say. I want my mom and dad to read this book. I want to know what they think of it. I want my sister and brother-in-law to read this book. I want to know what they think of it. I want Nayt to read this book. I want to hear how God talks to him as he thinks about it. And I trust He will.
This was good. Thank you for lending it to me, Lauren Brookes. :)
God is alive.
He used this book to remind me that He is not dead. He used this book to remind me that it doesn't matter to Him that I have ignored him for the past two months while I've been reading books. (Let's be honest, I've ignored Him for longer than that, with no real excuse. Not that an excuse to ignore God would really be valid.) God used this book to whisper up close next to me, "I'm here. Remember me? I love you."
Man, I SO needed that!
So, real review:
Rob Bell said it well in his introduction. There truly was a lot in this book that I had already heard from some other Christian reading, some other spiritual book, some other sermon, some other place. And yet, I feel like this book still needed to be written. Rob Bell comes at these weird, deep and hard questions in a way that is accessible. It's like he's saying, "I have those questions too. And I have no real idea how to answer them. Here's what I've circled around, though." It's like Madeleine L'Engle was saying in the book I read right before picking Love Wins up: most of the questions go unanswered and that's an ok thing.
I can't say that I now have a much more clear understanding of what happens after you believe in Jesus. I can't say that now I know for sure what heaven is or means or where it will be. I have my assumptions and theories based on scriptures from the Bible and discussions and sermons. But I'm a human. And I think the great thing about this book to take away, if you take away nothing else, is that Rob is trying to remind us (gently) that we are humans. How can we possibly be so arrogant as to think we know what God is up to?
I will be recommending this book, because I want to discuss it with people. I'm not in love with the book. I'm not agreeing with everything Rob said in it, or has ever said, or ever will say. I want my mom and dad to read this book. I want to know what they think of it. I want my sister and brother-in-law to read this book. I want to know what they think of it. I want Nayt to read this book. I want to hear how God talks to him as he thinks about it. And I trust He will.
This was good. Thank you for lending it to me, Lauren Brookes. :)