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Title	:	Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith
Author	:	Rob Bell
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 194 pages
Published	:	July 31st 2005 by Zondervan Publishing Company (first published January 1st 2005)
Categories	:	Christian. Nonfiction. Religion. Theology. Christianity. Spirituality. Faith

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In Velvet Elvis, Rob Bell frees us to consider God beyond the picture someone else painted for us in order to find an authentic understanding of the Christian faith. God doesn't have boundaries, and faith doesn't have to be limited to what someone else has told us. God is alive. Faith is alive. Velvet Elvis helps us find our faith. And even if it doesn't, it encourages us to keep looking. Faith doesn't end with this book. But it just might begin...

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Original Title:	Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith
ISBN:	031026345X (ISBN13: 9780310263456)
Edition Language:	English

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I took issue with enough in this book that I stopped reading it in the middle of chapter 3.

I am watching the Nooma video series that Rob Bell does so I decided to read this book to understand his theology. I was concerned. For one, I found often that his analogies or explanations were so vague that I often wondered "and what does that mean!"Unfortunately as I read Velvet Elvis, I actually found myself getting bored with Christianity...taking out the element of faith in God feels like taking out the adventure. Bell's theology diminishes the sovereignty of God, the historical reality of

1) I really like Bell's enthusiasm and passion for helping people break out of a religious system that many times can be boring and basically anything but alive. Sometimes I think that I myself am far too intertwined with this system which, although good in many ways, is still man-made.2) Bell's call to "test it. Probe it." is good advice. I have the awful tendency to read books, accepting most everything that I read as long as I trust the author or person who recommended the book to me.3) I

Having already read and thoroughly enjoyed Bells Love Wins I approached this one with high expectations. In some respects he didnt disappoint. On the plus side he begins from a perspective of Christian faith as a dynamic process lived through the whole of life, rather than a static set of truths to be accepted and held onto: The Christian faith is alive only when it is listening innovating, letting go of whatever has gotten in the way of Jesus and embracing whatever will help us to be more and

I liked this book more than I expected. If I had read it years ago before knowing the direction Rob Bell has taken since he wrote this, I might have liked it a lot more. But because I have read some of his recent books, I couldn't help but 'fill in' some of his characteristic silences, pauses and rhetorical questions with the answers he has more recently provided.Overall: Rob Bell asks helpful, uncomfortable questions of the church establishment. It's his answers that aren't that helpful. He

Keeping in mind that this is the first "Christian" book I've ever finished and that I loath going into "Christian" stores and purchasing things produced by "Christian" companies my review of this book will consist only of a single idea portrayed in the piece that is worth all four of the stars I gave it.I can't find the exact quote but here's the idea (and it's geared toward proclaimed "Christians");If you woke up tomorrow and there were irrefutable evidence that Mary, Mother of Jesus, was NOT a

Did I enjoy this book? Yes and no. Do I think this book makes a valuable contribution to Christian literature? Yes and no.Firstly, there is nothing exorbitantly wrong in this book. I think there are ideas in it which are over emphasized and exalted maybe a little too much.I like Rob Bell's vision of reaching out to people where they are and giving them the opportunity to experience a relationship with Christ ad then gradually come into a full knowledge of Christianity. It makes sense. That's how