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Source: Fishing the Abyss
Comments: Ken Silva tries to get maximum mileage out of distorting Rob Bell’s description of the growth of Mars Hill Church. Chris demonstrates that not only is Ken far from the truth, but also as obsessive as the literary Ahab, with Rob Bell as his Moby Dick…
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Apparently, having run out of direct material to misquote, Ken has now sunk to digging through comments in Amazon’s book reviews to try and dig up trash on Rob Bell.

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So, once again, Slice of Laodicea claims its prize in the Christian blogosphere’s hell on earth. I’d call it the National Enquirer of the Christian tin-foil hat crowd, but I’d be afraid of the Enquirer suing me for defamation.

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[Ken's only Reply] Absolutely amazing. You seriously need to consider becoming a spin doctor.

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[Henry Frueh, commenting] To say that dealing with the numbers at Mars Hill is ridiculous is an understatement. If a person has an issue with Bell it should be exclusively about his teaching, not the number of people that attend and how they may have or may not have stretched the numbers. But this is an example of how difficult it is to get consumed with being a watchdog, and maintaining a strict firewall between doctine and personal attacks.

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