Love Wins - Companion & Enhanced Edition

 

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Love Wins Companion
$10.95

Love Wins Companion offers support and resources for individuals, groups, and classes wishing to further explore the ideas presented in Love Wins and includes brand new material from Rob Bell.

 

Love Wins Companion includes:

• Insights and commentary by theologians, scholars, scientists, and pastors

• An in-depth exploration of Bible passages on heaven, hell, and salvation

• Detailed chapter summaries, discussion questions, and study guides for individuals, groups, and classes

• Excerpts from several historical works that speak to the breadth and diversity of Christian viewpoints on heaven, hell, and salvation.

• New material from Rob on his mission for the book, the positive and negative attention it has received, and some thoughts for readers

 

 

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Love Wins Enhanced Edition
$14.99

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This enhanced e-book includes the entire text of Rob Bell'’s Love Wins, The Love Wins Companion - A Study Guide for Those Who Want to Go Deeper, and eleven exclusive author videos.

 

 

 

 

 

Rob Bell's 'Love Wins' study guide promises deeper look into Mars Hill pastor's ideas
http://www.mlive.com/living/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2011/11/rob_bells_love_wins_study_guid.html

Published: Tuesday, November 15, 2011, 6:00 AM Updated: Tuesday, November 15, 2011, 9:56 AM

by Matt Vande Bunte | The Grand Rapids PressThe Grand Rapids Press

Grand Rapids Press File PhotoRob Bell talks about his new book "Love Wins" at the Woodland Mall Barnes & Noble in Kentwood on April 3, 2011.

 

GRANDVILLE — Whether it brings readers farther into the pit of hell or more fully into the grace of God, a new study guide for local pastor Rob Bell’s latest book promises a “deeper” look into the megachurch-pastor-turned-television-producer’s edgy ideas.

 

“The Love Wins Companion” was to be released today (TUES) by Harper Collins Publishers. With commentary from theologians and excerpts from historical works on salvation, the guide “offers support and resources for individuals, groups, and classes wishing to further explore the ideas presented in ‘Love Wins,’” according to a promotional website.

 

Bell over the weekend wrote to his 82,482 Twitter followers that “I’m thrilled with how it turned out,” and noted that a “Love Wins” enhanced e-book with new video content also will be released.

 

The guide “offers scholarly support and critiques” and “brand new material by Rob Bell himself,” according to the Harper Collins site. Among the additions: chapter summaries and discussion questions, in-depth review of Bible passages on heaven and hell and Bell’s take on response to the book, both positive and negative.

 

“In nuance, I didn’t agree with everything. In generality, I didn’t find anything troubling or contrary,” said the Rev. Bryan Schneider-Thomas, pastor of Peace Lutheran Church in Sparta, which studied the book via Facebook this summer.

 

“The most insightful thing that I got (from the study) was that the book was not at all that radical to our congregation. In fact, as we studied it, the most often response was kind of like ‘Yeah, so.’”

 

Schneider-Thomas said “(‘Love Wins’) is such a simple book that I can’t imagine much of a use for a study book” for the casual reader. But because “Love Wins” is characteristic of Bell’s conversational writing style, a study guide could add detail to the book’s assertions, he said.

 

“Love Wins” hit No. 2 on the New York Times bestseller list in March, when it was released, drawing reaction both grateful and damning from Christian leaders. It prompted Time magazine to name Bell one of the world’s 100 most influential people.

 

Bell announced in September that he’s leaving Mars Hill, the Grandville megachurch he started 12 years ago, to work in Los Angeles on a TV pilot loosely based on his life. The church at the time said Bell would continue to preach through December, with co-pastor Shane Hipps and others speaking at Sunday services through next spring. The church has no new plans to announce, spokesman Lee Jager said.

 

Bell last week in Toronto launched his “Fit to Smash Ice” tour, which also stopped over the weekend in Ithaca, N.Y., Providence, R.I. and Philadelphia. Upcoming dates include Nov. 25 in Pittsburgh, Nov. 26 in Charlottesville, Va. and Nov. 27 in Jersey City, N.J.