Resurrection: The Rock Video

Robert Holmes "Rob" Bell Jr. is an American "megachurch" pastor and author of such trendy books as Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith, Sex God: Exploring the Endless Connections between Sexuality and Spirituality -- his latest book, Love Wins, which from what I can tell is an exploration of Christian universalism, has caused quite a stir of late.

I don't know a great deal about Rob Bell, save for my stumbling on this video this morning of Rob Bell preaching on the Resurrection.

Now -- ordinarily, you might think the the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead would be sufficient enough to provoke some stirring of curiosity, wonder, awe.

Not so.

Rather, the resurrection (or Rob Bell's speculations on the meaning of such) has to be accompanied by a hip modern rock soundtrack and a streaming psychedelic light show such as I might have enjoyed -- oh, perhaps two decades ago, at a Grateful Dead concert, "under the influence." To such an extent that, at least from my perspective, the content of his message is repressed, obscured by the barrage of the senses.

What is it with these modern, megachurch televangelists?

What does this say about the attention span of the intended audience?

Has the gospel become so boring that we really have to be entertained by it?