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Article: Maverick minister taps new generation: Wheaton grad reaches out in films -- is he 21st century Billy Graham?
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- June 4, 2006
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Well after 10 p.m. one night in late April, the Rev. Rob Bell is
sitting patiently in a tall director's chair on the platform of the
Lake Street subway station in downtown Chicago.
The young pastor is not handing out tracts. He's not singing "What
a Friend We Have in Jesus" or "Kumbaya." Nor is he shouting into a
bullhorn about the end of the world.
Bell, the 35-year-old pastor of Mars Hill, a nondenominational
Bible church (though the signs on its doors call it a "Jesus
community") in Grandville, Mich., is waiting for the two dozen film
crew members to complete their preparations so he can shoot his first
scene.
Bell has traveled to Chicago to make a film called "Breathe" --
the 13th ...