The Love Wins Companion: A Study Guide For Those Who Want to Go Deeper

The Love Wins Companion: A Study Guide For Those Who Want to Go Deeper
Rob Bell

For anyone who wants to delve deeper into Rob Bell’s bestselling Love Wins, the expansive and accessible Love Wins Companion offers scholarly support and critiques, resources for individuals, groups, and classes, and brand new material by Rob Bell himself.As Love Wins continues to become a touchstone for thousands of readers worldwide, controversy surrounds the book’s arguments. Here, in The Love Wins Companion, Rob Bell offers commentary on the positive and negative attention his groundbreaking book is receiving, delivering a crucial supplement to one of the most important books Christian books today.• For those looking to go deeper with Rob Bell’s bestselling pioneering book Love Wins, this companion offers:• Insights and commentary by theologians, Bible scholars, scientists, and pastors• Deep analysis of all relevant Bible passages on heaven, hell, and salvation• Detailed chapter summaries, discussion questions, and Bible studies for individuals, groups, and classes• Excerpts from works throughout Christian history illustrating the variety of teachers also debating the issues Bell wrestles with• New material by Bell on his mission for the book and how people can take the next step

The

Love Wins

Companion

A Study Guide for

Those Who Want

to Go Deeper

ROB BELL

Edited By David Vanderveen

Contents

Cover (#u51d3d0a6-aeaf-53dc-bffd-83eba921968b)

Title Page (#ubf7f2c98-6bd5-5252-9ed3-35a0b4bb23f0)

Foreword - Do Not Be Afraid by Jack Heaslip

Preface by Rob Bell

How to Use This Companion by David Vanderveen

Chapter One - What About the Flat Tire?

Overview by Rob Bell (#ulink_019935d8-96a6-5ec5-8ca7-e1ecf9d11f62)

Going Deeper by David Vanderveen (#ulink_9b7e434e-8ddb-5a09-bc5e-cb03d7b186df)

Bible Study: A God Who Loves Questions (#ulink_42aa1934-5fbc-54d6-9c91-1bfba094853b)

Group Exercise: Knowing Your Story (#ulink_4174b52b-01e3-536e-b076-e9eb81c3cf7b)

Discussion Questions (#ulink_3903b19c-bf27-565b-992f-804b020b8ae2)

Reading: Questioning God by David Dark (#ulink_dffa0cf1-b4b5-5810-961e-8197a6b1d1df)

Reading: The Temptation of Religious Success by Oswald Chambers (#ulink_663db7b9-dc75-596b-8fab-2209a9b7ce0c)

Chapter Two - Here Is the New There

Overview by Rob Bell (#ulink_12aa875e-c244-5ff9-ba92-e3a48bdf0efa)

Going Deeper by David Vanderveen (#ulink_fbb1fdc9-0eca-5eb8-891f-20788dd1b343)

Bible Study: Earthly Heavenly Visions (#ulink_9cfbed99-15a3-53e6-82b7-cbb0ad389070)

Discussion Questions (#ulink_a3c2e95f-281d-5dbe-ab5e-abd539c06a0b)

Reading: Going to Heaven? by N. T. Wright (#ulink_3e9fb9a0-d3f2-5709-b897-7ebb3ff94ed9)

Chapter Three - Hell

Overview by Rob Bell (#litres_trial_promo)

Going Deeper by David Vanderveen (#litres_trial_promo)

Bible Study: (Almost) Everything the Bible Says About Hell (#litres_trial_promo)

Group Exercise: The Hell Download (#litres_trial_promo)

Discussion Questions (#litres_trial_promo)

Reading: Becoming a Deep Reader of Scripture by Clayton Libolt (#litres_trial_promo)

Reading: Hell on Earth by Shayne Moore (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Four - Does God Get What God Wants?

Overview by Rob Bell (#litres_trial_promo)

Going Deeper by David Vanderveen (#litres_trial_promo)

Bible Study: “All Things” (#litres_trial_promo)

Discussion Questions (#litres_trial_promo)

Reading: The Secret by Peter Rollins (#litres_trial_promo)

Reading: What Is Et ernal Life? by Pope Benedict XVI (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Five - Dying to Live

Overview by Rob Bell (#litres_trial_promo)

Going Deeper by David Vanderveen (#litres_trial_promo)

Bible Study: The Metaphorical Riches of the Cross (#litres_trial_promo)

Group Exercise: What Is the Gospel? (#litres_trial_promo)