Personal thoughts - Continued from Blogspot, I read "Love Wins" and I LIKED it!

Personal thoughts - Continued from Blogspot

I read “Love Wins” and I LIKED it!

(and Trevor Joy freaked out!)

Several months ago, I read Rob Bell’s “Love Wins”, the book which has sent the entire Judeo-Christian theological world into a tizzy. And I LIKED it! Let me explain (and please, someone get Pastor Trevor a glass of water!).

While there were MANY parts of “Love Wins” which I disagreed with, I found that it did accomplish two things for me: 1) it caused me to question WHAT I believe about heaven and hell and; 2) WHY I believe what I believe about heaven and hell.

I am SO thankful for the theological heftiness of both Pastor Matt Chandler and The Village Church who has “made” the gospel about so much more than “entrance” but instead, as “getting God!”!

Soon, I will begin reading what seems to be a responsive book, Francis Chan’s “Erasing Hell”.

I attended public school for two years and private school for the remainder of my education. After graduation, I attended Bible college in Dallas, Texas, for four and one-half years consecutively. Unfortunately, I failed a class and was unable to graduate with my class but God enabled me to re-take the course and I graduated with a Bachelor of Arts with a major in Bible and minors in Youth Ministry and Biblical Languages in 1994. After failing the aforementioned course, I had continued attending a church but began to falter in my faith. It was during my second year after my Bible college years that I was introduced to the International Churches of Christ (ICOC), where I became a member and was involved for twelve years. It was not until my twelfth year that, after much prayer from my parents and closest friends, Greg Faure and Wayne Stiles, I became convinced that the ICOC was a religious sect. In June, 2000, I left the ICOC and became a covenant member of The Village Church in Highland Village, TX, in April, 2004.

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