Best of: Mysteries at the Heart of the Human Experience with Rob Bell

The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Srinivas Rao

Society & Culture

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2017

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Rob’s early curiosity about life’s big questions planted the seeds for reinventing the experience of church and creating a community with room for doubt, discovery, and belief. He talks about the distinction between pursuing “success” and pursuing “craft,” why we must find people to discuss our most important questions with, and more!

Rob Bell is a bestselling author, international teacher, and highly sought after public speaker. His books include The New York Times bestseller Love Wins, along with What We Talk About When We Talk About God, The Zimzum of Love, Velvet Elvis, Sex God, Jesus Wants to Save Christians, Drops Like Stars. At age 28 he founded Mars Hill Bible Church in Michigan, and under his leadership it was one of the fastest-growing churches in America. In 2011 he was profiled in Time Magazine as one of their 100 most influential people. Rob was featured on Oprah’s 2014 Life You Want Tour and will be speaking at venues around the world in 2015 on the Everything is Spiritual Tour. He and his wife Kristen have three children and live in Los Angeles

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0:00.0	I was just curious way back. I mean I can remember having discussions with my parents early on.
0:08.2	I was just always interested, why are we here? What is this? What are we doing? Why does everybody just take it for granted that we're here when
0:15.1	this is the this is the weirdest thing ever to be a human being and being alive?
0:18.5	That's quite awesome as well. So I was probably drawn to the big questions. My parents used to
0:24.3	take us to church and what always struck me was I would look around during the
0:29.0	church service and I would think this should be the place where people are talking about the biggest
0:35.0	questions of hope and meaning and justice and creativity and what are we
0:40.1	doing here but it it was always so boring honestly. And you know like later in life
0:46.3	you sort of look back and ask and you see sort of seeds of your path early on, but I think something within me said I'm going to change that.
0:55.0	So I was in a band in college, the band broke up as college bands do because everybody had to get jobs.
1:00.4	And then I decided to go to seminary and I actually became a pastor and then I started a church.
1:06.0	My wife and I and some friends when we were 28.
1:09.0	And it was basically just, could you create a community where people could be from whatever background they're from and
1:15.4	could you have a place that had lots of room for doubt and questions and discovery and
1:21.8	disbelief and could you act on behalf of those who are poor and oppressed and could you do
1:29.2	things to affect real change in the world and the church like I mean it went a
1:34.8	thousand two thousand three thousand six thousand people seven thousand people somebody
1:39.2	gave us a mall that we took over and a couple years in I was probably 30 or 31 it was 10,000 people
1:46.5	and it was like a giant experiment and then I started writing books and going on tour and making short films and it's been an
1:55.6	awesome ride from there to give it all.
1:59.7	I'm Sreni Rao and this is the unmistakable Creative Podcast where you get a window into the stories
2:07.1	and insights of the most innovative and creative minds who started movements, built thriving businesses,
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