The joy is in the creation. So I've never had a target audience, it's always been about being true to the work as it emerges.
Rob BellIf your faith is threatened by something that's true, then it wasn't much of a faith to begin with, was it?
Rob BellSwords appear strong, but they're actually quite weak. Jesus appears weak, but he's actually quite strong.
Rob BellWhat if tomorrow someone digs up definitive proof that Jesus had a real, earthly, biological father named Larry, and archeologists find Larry's tomb and do DNA samples and prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that the virgin birth was just a bit of mythologizing the Gospel writers threw in to appeal to the followers of the Mithra and Dionysian religious cults that were hugely popular at the time of Jesus, whose gods had virgin births? Could you still be a Christian? Is the way of Jesus still the best possible way to live?
Rob Bell