Rob Bell

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Robert Holmes Bell Jr. (born August 23, 1970) is an American writer, speaker, and former pastor.

Bell, the founder of Mars Hill Bible Church in Grandville, Michigan, which he pastored until 2012.

Mars Hill was one of America's fastest-growing churches under his leadership.

He is also the author of the New York Times bestseller Love Wins, as well as the author and narrator of a series of spiritual short films called NOOMA.

Bell was included on Time's list of the World's Most Influential People in 2011.

He has since worked as a freelance writer and speaker on a variety of talk shows and national speaking tours on topics relating to spirituality and leadership.

'The Robcast,' a famous podcast, is also hosted by him.' Bell's The Heretic, a film about Bell, was released in 2018.

Early life and education

Bell is the son of U.S. District Judge Robert Holmes Bell, who was appointed to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan.

Bell attended Wheaton College in Illinois after graduating from high school. He formed an alternative rock band and taught water skiing at a Christian camp while at Wheaton. He had been asked to fill in as a replacement preacher at camp. Bell earned a degree from Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California, where he obtained his bachelor's degree from Wheaton and obtained a Bachelor's degree from Fuller Theological Seminary.

Bell and his wife moved from California to Grand Rapids, where they were nearer to family and on invitation to study under pastor Ed Dobson. For the Saturday Night service at Calvary Church, he did many of the preaching duties. After visiting the Greek temple where the apostle Paul lived, Bell announced that he would venture out on his own to create a new kind of community, naming it "Mars Hill": "For as I walked around and scrutinized your holy objects of worship, I discovered an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD." Now that I am going to reveal to you as something that is unknown.

Bell founded Mars Hill Bible Church in February 1999, with the congregation's first meeting in a school gym in Wyoming, Michigan. Within a year, the church was given a shopping mall in Grandville, Michigan, and the surrounding property was purchased. The 3,500 "grey chair" center opened in July 2000. On Sundays at 9 and 11 a.m., nearly 11,000 people attended the two "gatherings" as of 2005. The difference between 8,000 and 10,000 people on Sunday varied as of March 2011. The congregation sold these stickers after services because his teachings at Mars Hill inspired the famous "Love Wins" bumper sticker, and the congregation generously distributed the stickers after services.

Bell maintained his Fridays as a personal sabbath, where he did not allow contact by electronic means, and that all pastoral duties were distributed to other Mars Hill pastors in order to maintain balance in his life.

Bell was named No. 81 in the January 2007 issue of TheChurchReport.com. Their readers and online visitors rated ten people in "America's Top 50 Most Influential Christians" as ranked by their readers and online visitors.

Bell resigned from Mars Hill Church on September 22, 2011 to host "a spiritual talk show in Los Angeles." Love Wins, Bell's 2011 book, sparked controversy in evangelical circles because of its claims of hell; the uproar caused thousands of people to leave Mars Hill and later led to Bell's resignation.

Bell appeared at the Viper Room nightclub in Los Angeles in July 2012. Bell spoke at his first major function since leaving Mars Hill. Bell has hosted conferences and workshops in Laguna Beach for "leaders, educators, entrepreneurs, writers, and pastors—anyone whose work involves designing something and then broadcasting it around the world."

Bell appeared in NOOMA, a series of short films. The title of the video series "NOOMA" in English is an English translation of the Greek word pneuma, which means breath or spirit. All of the videos feature Bell's teachings, as well as local independent musicians' songs (with the exception of The Album Leaf's music, which was not licensed for the NOOMA DVD Lump).

Bell's first book, Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith, was published in August 2005, but Zondervan Publishing, according to the official online summary, "for the millions of people who are fascinated by Jesus, but not so many can do the standard Christian package." Bell's debut book "British Faith" explores a new interpretation of the Christian faith.

Bell's Everything is Spiritual national speaking tour began in Chicago on June 30, 2006. The proceeds from ticket sales were donated to WaterAid, an international non-profit group dedicated to helping people flee the hunger and poverty caused by living without clean water and sanitation.

In 2007, Bell's second book, titled Sex God: Exploring the Endless Connections of Sexuality and Spirituality, was released. Bell toured the United Kingdom and Ireland in June 2007 as part of a series called Calling All Peacemakers. Bell's "The Gods Aren't Angry" was a popular defense of justification by faith rather than works, which was the subject of a lengthy speaking tour. The tour attracted sold-out audiences in towns around North America. Proceeds from this tour were used to help the poor in Burundi's poor, which was a project that was supported by Bell's Church.

Drops Like Stars, Bell's 2009 research, explores the connections between creativity and sadness. Like Stars was a worldwide tour and a book that was first written by Bell with photographs. The project's name came from a young boy's encounter with raindrops on a window at night. Bell rather than focusing on the fact that an all-powerful God would allow suffering, rather than worrying about the suffering, compassion, new alliances, and growth that can arise from suffering. When asked in an interview whether he had become interested in suffering, Bell replied that as a pastor he had been given a front row seat to the most traumatic moments of people's lives. "There was a connection between these two halves of my life, all these associations between pain and art-making" were present at the same time.

Bell was interviewed by Oprah for her Super Soul Sunday television show in September 2013. What We Talk About When We Talk About God is Bell's book that was also listed as the first recommended book in Oprah's "Book of the Month" series.

ABC television announced the production of a new television drama named Stronger, co-written by Bell and Carlton Cuse, the executive producer of the television show Lost, beginning in 2011. The show, which is based loosely on Bell's life and his unpublished novel-turned-pilot-script, will follow Tom Stronger, a singer on a spiritual journey. Bell and Cuse were unable to obtain permission to shoot a pilot for Stronger.

Bell and Cuse have embarked on another project dubbed a "faith-inflected talk show" on Bell's website. In September 2012, two tapings of the proposed show were shot in a warehouse in Los Angeles' arts district in order to create a reel for network executives. They were listed as either That One Show Rob Bell and Carlton Cuse Have Been Working On, or the September Shows for short.

The Robcast, Bell's podcast, is a podcast that broadcasts. He is the only host, but visitors are often welcomed. Bell believes that "churches and denominations are waning" and that the freedom of learning and growing spiritually without the constraints of corporate institutions is fading. On iTunes, it was dubbed the best faith and spirituality podcast of 2015. The World Magazine's Juliana Chan Erikson questioned how podcasts, such as the Robcast, are influencing their viewers.

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