Since this is something of a relaunch for the SalvationLife blog, here in its speedy new Wordpress home, I'm pulling a link out of the archives of the first blog post I made: Get the Hell Out of... Us. Because of the controversy around Rob Bell's new book, Love Wins, the word "hell" is getting a lot of attention in Christian circles today, and I just figure as long as people are probably searching the internet for it right now, I might as well throw it into my own blog a few more times. What the h...

I haven't read Love Wins yet, but from reviews theologians I trust (like Scot McKnight), I can gather that part of Bell's point is the same point I tried to make in Get the Hell Out of... Us, which is to note that as much as people in churches have tended to talk about who gets in to heaven and who doesn't, Jesus spent very little time on the subject. His message was much more focused on how we can change our direction and enter into his Father's kingdom today.