Love Wins

A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived

By: Rob Bell

Narrated by: Rob Bell

Length: 3 hrs and 39 mins

Publisher's summary

Millions of Christians have struggled with how to reconcile God's love and God's judgment: Has God created billions of people over thousands of years only to select a few to go to heaven and everyone else to suffer forever in hell? Is this acceptable to God? How is this "good news"?

Troubling questions, so troubling that many have lost their faith because of them. Others only whisper the questions to themselves, fearing or being taught that they might lose their faith and their church if they ask them out loud.

But what if these questions trouble us for good reason? What if the story of heaven and hell we have been taught is not, in fact, what the Bible teaches? What if what Jesus meant by heaven, hell, and salvation are very different from how we have come to understand them?

What if it is God who wants us to face these questions?

Author, pastor, and innovative teacher Rob Bell presents a deeply biblical vision for rediscovering a richer, grander, truer, and more spiritually satisfying way of understanding heaven, hell, God, Jesus, salvation, and repentance. The result is the discovery that the "good news" is much, much better than we ever imagined. Love wins.

©2011 Robert H. Bell, Jr. Trust (P)2011 HarperCollins Publishers

i'd be thrilled

While I can't say that I concur, agree, subscribe or have completely made my mind up about every idea and thought in this book, I can say that I have enjoyed the thoughts, conversations and discussions that have come out of listening to it. I've actually listened to it 3 times because it's pretty short.

A read for all.

Incredible and right in line with what God has been showing me about Himself. Thank you for blazing this trail. My understanding is this has been a costly trail to blaze.
I’d love to know more about your perspective on mental health and addiction and the crisis we find our nation in. I think I have a good idea where you might go with that but I would really value some points to ponder as one who works in this arena as ministry.
Thanks for so much to chew on here!

BRAVO!

Loved it. At first I was not sure of Mr. Bell's direction to God but it was made clearer as I listened on. Bravo!♡

Critically Important in These Days

There is so much division between us all, both within the church and outside it. It is critical that we find common ground, and that is (hopefully) within love. I wish more Christians could walk in this freedom and just declare what Jesus truly meant by "good news."

On a more specific note, even though I fancy myself a bit of a Bible scholar, I learned MANY new things and interesting twists on topics I felt I already had a good handle on. Extremely well written and enlightening.

Love Really Does Win

It is my wish that every single person in the world could listen to or read this book. It's that powerful, hopeful, truthful, and beautiful. Rob does an excellent job of painting a picture of the true nature of God. I love this book! My heart is soaring!

Love wins

I love this book because Rob tells the truth about our heavenly father God is love

Rob Bell is a prophet

Rob Bell is taking Christianity back to its graceful, loving, and beautiful roots. in this book, he reminds us that the self-acclaimed fundamentalist-christians don't own the Jesus story. he reminds us that that there are other, more accurate, beautiful, graceful, and relevant interpretations of the Jesus story. This is a must for Christian readers, and everyone else.

If Love Wins, then so do You and I

If you get that Love Wins, then you understand that, but for the Grace of God, there go you or I (however awful that may be). NT Wright clears up lots of confusion in Surprised by Hope (pp. 175 to 183): When Jesus was warning his hearers about Gehenna he was not, as a general rule, telling them that unless they repented in this life they would burn in the next one . . . It is on earth that things matter, where they will burn, not somewhere else." "Jesus simply didn't say very much about the future life." There will be judgment because idolatry plus dehumanization plus habituation results in evil or sin "by one's own effective choice . . . beings that once were human but now are not, creatures that have ceased to bear the divine image at all." "Those creatures that still exist in an ex-human state, no longer reflecting their maker in any meaningful sense, can no longer excite in themselves or others the natural sympathy some feel even for the hardened criminal." However, especially depraved individuals who have no evidence of humanity in them, who are hardened criminals, who have come out of Romanian orphanages and suffered complete absence of bonding, respond out of the most profound absence of the capacity to be human, due to failure of the mother-child bond: there, but for the Grace of God go you or I. I know, beyond a shadow of a doubt that those who live in accordance with the reality of God as manifest in Jesus the Christ (explicit or implicit) and reflected in their capacity to believe, think, feel, imagine and act in accordance with God's will, adjusting for history, culture, family and individual experiences will win God's infinite Love. I believe this is what Bell's book is all about: Agape.

Courage

Thankful for the courage to follow the Spirit and putting into words what many of us ALL feel.

Centered in Love, not fear, this is GOOD NEWS!

This wonderful gift from Rob Bell reminds us that we are loved, and centered in God’s Love, not fear, lifts us in hope to grow whole, balanced, hopeful, creative and loving, both of ourselves and one another! Thank you, Rob Bell!