Rob Bell - Why is Community so Important? (N11)

Nomad Podcast

Tim Nash

Christianity, Faithshift, Deconstruction, Christianmysticism, Religion & Spirituality, Christianspirituality, Progressivechristian, Christian, Religion, Emergingchurch

4.7 • 658 Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2009

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Do we need to introduce Rob Bell? Former Pastor of Mars Hill Bible Church, presenter of the Nooma DVD series, author of many an influential book. We chat with Rob about mission, community and new forms of church.

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0:00.0	Nomad, Christian community, mission and the future of the church.
0:16.2	We have five friends who live in Nottingham, England, who every month chat to leading Christian thinkers
0:20.9	who help us consider mission, community and the future of the church. On this month's show, Nick and Laura
0:26.4	went to meet Rob Bell, the leader of Mars Hill Church in the US, the author of a number of books,
0:31.4	and presenter of the hugely popular Numa DVD series. we've driven down to Cheltenham today
0:43.1	and we're really, really excited to meet Rob Bell.
0:46.7	Could you just give us a brief sort of description of yourself
0:50.1	for people who might not have heard of you?
0:51.6	I'm sure.
0:52.3	I'm wearing black trousers, green trainers.
0:58.1	My name is Rob Bell, and a couple days ago I turned 39 years of age.
1:03.7	Wow.
1:03.9	And I have a wife named Kristen and three kids, and I live in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
1:08.1	And I'm thrilled to be in the UK. I love coming here. Come here as often as I can.
1:15.0	And it's nice weather, isn't it? I live in Grand Rapids, Michigan. So this is no problem.
1:20.7	This is no problem. I'm right at home here. Brilliant. Greg Boyd, who is one of our previous guests,
1:26.1	describes you as a masterful, artistic, prophetic
1:29.4	communicator. And if anybody listening has read any of Rob's books or watched a Numa DVD or
1:35.8	listen to any of his talks, then you will know that that's just about right. Rob, we wanted to ask
1:41.2	you a little bit about the kind of things that make this podcast tick
1:44.5	about mission and community and church.
1:46.7	So we thought we'd kick off with quite a nice, easy question, which is, what is your
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