This is a book by Rob Bell, the same guy who does the nooma project DVDs. He is the pastor at Mars Hill Church in grand Rapids, USA.
Now I recommend this book because it causes you to think. There are a couple of areas where I wonder what he is thinking but basically it is sound.
The challenge that it gives to me is two fold. Firstly, to get back to basics. We need to base everything on the fact that God loves us. Quite often this does not make sense to us when we think about what we do and what we think. But to put it bluntly, "There is nothing you can do to make God love you less... NOTHING".
Secondly, he examples how we really should be coming to God's word. He looks at what it says, goes what does this mean in the day that it was written, extracts the principle, then moves it across to today. Now some things do this in a literal way. For instance do not murder comes across very easily. But other bits make so much more sense when you see them in the light of when they were written.
Anyway, a very good book. Very challenging. Very Christ centred. Many thumbs up!!!
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