Ok, so as I said. I'm re-reading this book. And so often I read things and think about them then those thoughts just get blown away- like sheep in a hurricane. So I am no longer doing that, which means that there may be a tedious amount of blogging about this book. Tough!

Chapter 1: God wears Lipstick- my thoughts

Rob Bell talks about shared humanity, well, what should be a shared humanity that is so often lost beneath labels of colour, gender, class, social groups and any other form of circumstantial exclusion. He makes a connection between earth, hell and heaven. They are all in existance simultaneously, and possibly, all the in the same place. Where we exist, reflecting the image of God and living under his reign- there heaven is. Where we exist denying God's thumbprint in us and ignoring his supremecy- there hell is. We take hell or heaven with us wherever we go, and we have to claim the ground for God, taking heaven where it needs to be.
Bell tells a story of a women, a heaven-bringer who he says 'sees only one label: human and therefore has only one response: love.'

If that is what it takes to stake the land, then i must admit, i have a very small plot!