Maverick minister taps new generation: Wheaton grad reaches out in films -- is he 21st century Billy Graham?

Chicago Sun-Times | June 4, 2006| | Copyright

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 ...

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