Former Mars Hill Bible Church pastor Rob Bell has released a trailer and tour dates for his new book, What We Talk About When We Talk About God, in which the Christian author and minister does for God “what he did for heaven and hell in Love Wins,” according to the publisher.
Pictured: “What We Talk About When We Talk About God” by Rob Bell is available March 12, 2013.
“I think there are a lot of people in our culture who can’t do the God sort of belief system or the idea. So there’s this very, very popular movement that essentially says ‘this is all there is,'” Bell says in the trailer shared online Tuesday. “The problem is, for lots and lots of people that doesn’t work. Because your kid is born, or you hear that piece of music or you find yourself in the middle of some natural wonder and you’re like ‘I find it hard to believe this is all there is, there’s nothing else.'”
According to HarperOne, Bell explains in What We Talk About When We Talk About Love why “both culture and the church resist talking about God, and shows how we can reconnect with the God who is pulling us forward into a better future.”
The new book will “challenge everything you think you know about God,” the publisher adds.
In explaining the main point of What We Talk About When We Talk About God, Bell says in the book trailer, “God is not behind us dragging us backwards into some primitive, regressive state. God has always been ahead of us pulling us forward, into greater and greater peace, integration, wholeness and love.”
The first city scheduled in Bell’s book tour is Grand Rapids, Mich., just minutes away from where the author used to lead Mars Hill Bible Church, the congregation he founded in 1999.
SOURCE: Nicola Menzie
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