Love Wins by Rob Bell

I could easily write a "review" of this one, but I'd just be one of the literal millions who have thrown their opinions into the ring. Read the book. Discuss it. Open up with people you trust. Or people you don't. This is a book that begs to be dialogued through (as I did with JRe)....I'd love to hammer things out with you. I took well over 8 pages of notes, and I'll post a few quotes that moved me here.

"Love demands freedom. We are free to resist, reject, and rebel against God's ways for us. We can have all the hell we want."

"There are questions, or more accurately, there are tensions we are free to leave fully intact. We don't need to resolve them or answer them, because we can't, and so we simply respect them, creating space for the freedom that love requires."

"Grace and generosity aren't fair. That's their very essence."

"We do ourselves great harm when we confuse the very essence of God, which is love, with the very real consequences of rejecting and resisting that love, which creates what we call hell."

My paraphrase of what Bell offers is this: You have to come to terms with your own story. Regardless of how you were shaped, but realizing that your individual experience is significant.