Love Wins: For Teens (International Edition)

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If God were throwing a party, would everyone be invited Or does God invite some and not others And if so, how does God decide Is it what you say Is it what you do Is it what you're going to do Is it who your friends are Or what your friends do Or what religion you happened to be born into Or where you live, or what you look like, or what you believe What if the idea of heaven and hell that we have been taught is not, in fact, what the Bible teaches What if Jesus meant something very different by the concepts of heaven, hell, and salvation from how we've come to understand them And what if the answer to life's meaning is much better than we ever imagined In his teen edition of the bestselling book love wins, Rob Bell tackles all these questions in a way that addresses the real challenges of growing up in today's world. This is not just a book of questions and this is not just a book of answers. This is a book of exploration. This is a book of discovery. This is a book about why love wins.

Rob Bell is a New York Times bestselling author, speaker, and spiritual teacher. His books include Love Wins, How to Be Here, What We Talk About When We Talk About God, Velvet Elvis, The Zimzum of Love, Sex God, Jesus Wants to Save Christians, and Drops Like Stars. He hosts the weekly podcast The Robcast, which was named by iTunes as one of the best of 2015. He was profiled in The New Yorker and in TIME Magazine as one of 2011's hundred most influential people. He and his wife, Kristen, have three children and live in Los Angeles.

"This evangelical celebration of the love of God will open new doors for Jesus seekers fed up with the toxic hellfire and brimstone tirades of fundamentalist Christianity. As that happens, love wins again!"--Spirituality and Practice "Bell is at the forefront of a rethinking of Christianity in America."--Time magazine "One of the country's most influential evangelical pastors."--New York Times "Love Wins will make Christians re-examine their faith and will help them reclaim a vital and exciting vision of heaven and God's love."--Relevant "A bold, prophetic and poetic masterpiece. I don't know any writer who expresses the inexpressible love of God as powerfully and as beautifully as Rob Bell! No one who seriously engages this book will put it down unchanged. A 'must read' book!"--Greg Boyd, senior pastor at Woodland Hills Church and author of The Myth of a Christian Nation "Bell fights every impulse in our culture to domesticate Jesus challenges the reader to be open to surprise, mystery and all of the unanswerables. . . . Bell has given theologically suspicious Christians new courage to bet their life on Jesus Christ."--Christian Century "Claiming that some versions of Jesus should be rejected, particularly those used to intimidate and inspire fear or hatred, Bell persuasively interprets the Bible as a message of love and redemption. . . . His style is characteristically concise and oral, his tone passionate and unabashedly positive."--Publishers Weekly "In Love Wins, Rob Bell tackles the old heaven-and-hell question and offers a courageous alternative answer. Thousands of readers will find freedom and hope and a new way of understanding the biblical story - from beginning to end."--Brian D. McLaren, author of A New Kind of Christianity and Naked Spirituality "It isn't easy to develop a biblical imagination that takes in the comprehensive and eternal work of Christ . . . Rob Bell goes a long way in helping us acquire just such an imagination--without a trace of soft sentimentality and without compromising an inch of evangelical conviction."--Eugene H. Peterson, Professor Emeritus of Spiritual Theology, Regent College, and author of The Message and The Pastor "One of the nation's rock-star-popular young pastors, Rob Bell, has stuck a pitchfork in how Christians talk about damnation."--USA Today "This attention-getter of a book ignited a heated popular conversation about whether God saves people like Gandhi or sends him and billions of other non-Christians to a fiery and painful place in the afterlife."--Publishers Weekly, Best Books of the Year