{"id":46,"date":"2008-10-23T18:50:59","date_gmt":"2008-10-23T18:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/textmessages\/2008\/10\/rob-bells-4-priorities-for-chu.html"},"modified":"2008-10-23T18:50:59","modified_gmt":"2008-10-23T18:50:59","slug":"rob-bells-4-priorities-for-chu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/textmessages\/2008\/10\/rob-bells-4-priorities-for-chu.html","title":{"rendered":"Rob Bell’s 4 priorities for churches"},"content":{"rendered":"
Relevant asks<\/a>, “What are some crucial changes that our churches need to make to become a Eucharist that is broken and poured out for the world?” Pastor Bell answers:<\/div>\n
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1. Master the art of doubt. Faith needs it to survive.\u00a0\n<\/div>\n
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2. Surrender the compulsive need to constantly remind people that according to your worldview you’re going to heaven forever when you die and they’re going to burn in hell forever.\u00a0\n<\/div>\n
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3. Celebrate the good and the true and the beautiful wherever and whenever you find it regardless of the label it wears or the person it comes from or the place you found it. All things are yours.\u00a0\n<\/div>\n
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4. Remember that the tax collectors and prostitutes loved to feast with Jesus and the religious establishment gossiped about him and dissected his teachings and questioned his commitment to orthodoxy and eventually had him killed. There’s a lesson for us there.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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