Followup to Recent Bell Tour

Here is another review of Rob Bell's recent tour, which I posted on a few days ago.

Again, the tour is supposed to be about how through Jesus, God has sent us a new message: "the gods aren't angry." Depending on what you mean by that, it can actually be a true statement. But as you will see in this review, it appears that Rob is going to great lengths to avoid talking about the cross and our need to trust in Christ to be saved from the anger of God.

As noted by this reviewer, myself, and countless others, what Rob Bell and many others today are preaching is essentially classic liberal theology. It's a justification based, not on the cross of Jesus Christ, not on an imputation of my sin to Christ and his righteousness to me, but on the basis of my works (which may or may not be Spirit-inspired, depending on who you talk to). It doesn't like to talk about God's hatred of sin, or really much about sin at all.

Should the lives of Christians lead to the fruit of good works? Certainly. But that fruit can only come from the cross. The only fruit that glorifies God is the fruit produced when we are justified by the work of Christ, who turns away God's anger and wrath by becoming sin for us, so that in him we become the righteousness of God.