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Rob Bell Has Left the Building

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I just returned from a trip over to Indianapolis. No, it wasn’t for a race. Robbie Sagers bought tickets for the final stop of the Rob Bell “Everything Is Spiritual” tour and thought it would be a great idea to see it for ourselves.

Bell, the author of the bestseller Velvet Elvis, is one of the most popular pastors in the “emerging church” movement in contemporary evangelicalism. This tour has been described by some in the mainstream media as analogous to the beginnings of the Billy Graham crusades.

Moore on this later. I plan to give some initial thoughts on the Bell phenomenon and the larger EC movement to my Sunday School class tomorrow. If I can, I’ll post the text or audio here.

And, yes, everything is spiritual (1 John 4:1-2). True that.

Only when we see how lost we are, we can find our way again. Only when we bury what’s dead can we experience life again. Only when we lose our religion can we be amazed by grace again.

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About Russell Moore

Russell Moore is Editor in Chief of Christianity Today and is the author of the forthcoming book Losing Our Religion: An Altar Call for Evangelical America (Penguin Random House).

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