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Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith [Audiobook] (Audio CD)

by Rob Bell (Author)
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  • Audio CD
  • Publisher: Zondervan Publishing House; Unabridged edition (1 Aug 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0310266637
  • ISBN-13: 978-0310266631
  • Product Dimensions: 15.2 x 12.7 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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"God doesn't change, but times do, and Rob Bell, founding pastor of Mars Hill Bible Church in Michigan, believes new times call for us to remain open and flexible, living with passion and conviction....An advocate of a postmodern approach to faith, Bell is vulnerable about his own struggles with doubt and understanding Scripture. Joy, awe, raw honesty, and an appreciation for the mystery of faith permeate the pages." -- Christianity Today


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We have to test everything. I thank God for anybody anywhere who is pointing people to the mysteries of God. But those people would all tell you to think long and hard about what they are saying and doing and creating. Test it. Probe it. Do that to this book. Don't swallow it uncritically. Think about it. Wrestle with it. Just because I'm a Christian and I'm trying to articulate a Christian worldview doesn't mean I've got it nailed. I'm contributing to the discussion. God has spoken, and the rest is commentary, right!

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5.0 out of 5 stars Velvet Elvis - A Masterpiece, 28 Aug 2006
This review is from: Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith (Hardcover)
If Rob Bell didn't exist I would have to invent him, as an imaginary friend, or something like that. You see, when you begin to wonder about whether the Christianity your church practices is really what God had in mind, when you start asking tough questions about your faith, you can quickly find yourself in a very lonely place. When about a year ago I came across the ideas of Rob Bell I had just about resigned myself to thinking I was the only one feeling like this - some kind of failure or freak. Rob's material helped me to see that my questions are not simply allowable, they are essential to an authentic Christian life.
Velvet Elvis is like a portal connecting the world Jesus walked with the world we walk. But Rob does so much more than demonstrate the depth of his commitment to studying ancient Jewish culture and history, he shows he is vitally connected to the here and now too. As the past and the present are brought together the future starts making spectacular sense. In many ways this is the book that Steve Chalke probably wanted to write but ended up with 'The Lost Message of Jesus' instead (which is good but not a patch on this). I really can't commend this book highly enough without resorting to superlatives but which one do I pick? Maybe the biggest complement I can pay is to say I think 'The King' would dig this book - I can just imagine him wobbling around the Jungle Lounge at Graceland turning the pages with frequent shouts of 'Uh-HUH!' (the book is absolutely nothing to do with Elvis by the way).
Before I leave you with a quote I need to give this book a health warning, or faith warning if you like. If you like your Christianity neat and tidy this will probably wreck your internal feng shui big time, so stay away! ;-)
"Central to the Christian experience is the art of questioning God. Not belligerent, arrogant questions that have no respect for our Maker, but naked, honest, vulnerable, raw questions arising out of the awe that comes from engaging the living God.
This type of questioning frees us. Frees us from having it all figured out. Frees us from having answers to everything. Frees us from having to be right. It allows us to have moments when we come to the end of our ability to comprehend. Moments when the silence is enough."
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4.0 out of 5 stars Great production of excellent authors mooshy debut, 30 Jan 2009
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Velvet Elvis: you love it or you hate it.
Unless you're me, in which case you hate it, keep thinking about it, read it again and think it's alright.
As a debut this is certainly interesting and Rob Bell has gone on to more then prove his worth as a writer with the far superior books Sex God and Jesus Wants to Save Christians.
Why are those books better? They are more focused and coherent. Velvet Elvis mooshes everything the the author must have felt he wanted to say into one scatter shot book and the result is a bit patchy. But in places it's extremely engaging.

This audio book is unabridged and read by the author, so you get an excellent insight in to some of the passages, especially the more personal material.
But I can't help feeling that a lot of the chapters here are done better justice in the Nooma DVD series.
If you are new to Rob Bell then I would recommend you start with the book Sex God, or the DVD's Everything is Spiritual or Nooma: Dust. Or down load a Mars Hill Podcast for free. If his teaching style draws you in then by all means get this CD as it is an excellent production of an interesting, but not brilliant book.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Cool Stuff, 12 Jun 2009
This review is from: Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith (Hardcover)
it said it was "like new" and honesty it was like new. I was very pleased.
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