San Francisco,
California – Rob Bell, author of the best-selling and controversial book Love
Wins, which challenges the Christian teaching of Hell, came out in support of
homosexual marriage on Sunday and called “narrow” Christians to repentance.
According to
reports, Bell was speaking at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco and delivered a
message based on his new book What We Talk About When We Talk About God.
During the
question and answer period, Bell was asked about his beliefs regarding same-sex
“marriage.”
“I am for
marriage. I am for fidelity. I am for love, whether it’s a man and woman, a
woman and a woman, a man and a man,” he said. “I think the ship has sailed and
I think the church needs — I think this is the world we are living in and we
need to affirm people wherever they are.”
Bell opined
that many evangelicals can no longer be classified as conservatives because
their beliefs have changed with the times.
“I think we are
witnessing the death of a particular subculture that doesn’t work,” he asserted.
“I think there is a very narrow, politically intertwined, culturally
ghettoized, evangelical subculture that was told ‘we’re gonna change the thing’
and they haven’t. And they actually have turned away lots of people.”
“And I think
that when you’re in a part of a subculture that is dying, you make a lot more
noise because it’s very painful. You sort of die or you adapt,” Bell continued.
“And if you adapt, it means you have to come face to face with some of the ways
we’ve talked about God, which don’t actually shape people into more loving,
compassionate people. And we have supported policies and ways of viewing the
world that are actually destructive. And we’ve done it in the name of God and
we need to repent.”
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