Conversation with Rob Bell

December 26, 2007 | Filed Under church, culture |

rob-bell.jpgThere is a very interesting conversation over at Read the Spirit between David Crumm and Rob Bell at the beginning of Bell’s “The God’s Aren’t Angry” tour. You can find the complete interview here, but here is a bit of the dialogue:

DAVID: You’re known as a master of new media -– that’s the way people think of your work with the downloadable sermons and Nooma films and your church’s unusual Web site. But you don’t use a lot of that on stage. Not at Mars Hill and not in these tours. What you do on stage is very basic. Why?

ROB: We have to be extremely cautious. We shape our tools and they shape us. I’m completely open to whatever new technologies present themselves, but we also must be aware of what these new things are. They’re tools and they shape our messages.

Some of these tools are so powerful that they will gather lots of people. But filling a room with thousands of people who watch a performance –- that’s not church. Church involves feeding the poor, talking somebody out of killing themselves, helping someone pay their grocery bills when they can’t afford to do it. That’s church.

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