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Tweeting the Gospel: Rob Bell Tries Again

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• Again<http: //blog.christianitytoday.com/ctliveblog/archives/2009/10/tweeting_the_go.html>
• In an interview
• <http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/article_print.html?id=81195> with Rob
• Bell earlier this year, CT senior managing editor Mark Galli asked the Mars
• Hill Bible Church pastor how he would present the gospel on Twitter. Bell
• replied:
• I would say that history is headed somewhere. The thousands of little ways
• in which you are tempted to believe that hope might actually be a legitimate
• response to the insanity of the world actually can be trusted. And the
• Christian story is that a tomb is empty, and a movement has actually begun
• that has been present in a sense all along in creation. And all those times
• when your cynicism was at odds with an impulse within you that said that
• this little thing might be about something bigger—those tiny little slivers
• may in fact be connected to something really, really big.
• In his response, Bell provoked a fair bit of
• criticism<http: //blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?q=%22Rob%20Bell%22%20gospel%20%22Christianity%20today%22>in
• the blogosphere (as he did again last
• week <http: //technorati.com/search/bell+evangelical?language=n> when he told
• *The Boston Globe<http: //www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/09/27/bell_aims_to_restore_true_meaning_of_evangelical/>
• ,* “I embrace the term *evangelical*, if by that we mean a belief that we
• together can actually work for change in the world, caring for the
• environment, extending to the poor generosity and kindness, a hopeful
• outlook. That’s a beautiful sort of thing.”)
• But Galli pointed out that he was cheating anyway. His answer was a lot more
• than 140 characters. "You can't really tweet the gospel," Bell replied.
• Well, last night, Bell gave it a second shot
• <http://twitter.com/realrobbell/status/4631728631> on his Twitter feed: "The
• gospel is the counterintuitive, joyous, exuberant news that Jesus has
• brought the unending, limitless, stunning love of God to even us."
• At 117 characters, he even left enough to retweet.
• Wess