Saturday, March 19, 2011

Love Wins - A Sad Case

Over these past few weeks I have become aware of the various discussions surrounding the anticipated publication of 'Love Wins' by Rob Bell, pastor of a church in Grand Rapids, Michigan, called Mars Hill.
Justin Taylor's comments on 'The Gospel Coalition' caused a fuss and then the Martin Bashir interview of Bell on MSNBC this past week certainly caught my interest in the light of Rob Bell's responses.
It turns out that Martin Bashir is a committed Christian himself and whilst simply going after the dis-ingenuousness he perceived in Bell's book, it was clear for any with eyes to see and ears to understand that Bashir understood the Christian Gospel better than Bell and exposed the postmodern nonsense that marks so much of this Emergent Church movement.
I have not read Bell's book, I am not sure I want to fork out any money that might go towards Bell's work if the critique's are accurate. Simply going off the Bashir interview is enough for any truly committed Christian to see that Bell is not an orthodox evangelical Christian and he is certainly a postmodernist in his approach to things. Glad that the exposure of this man was so clear.