Here is an interview in Christianity Today of Rob Bell. Take a minute and read it...carefully. Pay close attention to what he specifically (or not so specifically) says about the gospel.

I find this to be a very interesting interview. Besides having strong opinions about pacifists, I really struggle with Bell’s answer to the questions about the gospel.

Here’s an interview question and Bell’s response:
You're essentially reframing the gospel—at least the gospel you inherited, the gospel we have known as the gospel in North America for the last couple hundred years.

I am leery of people who have very clear ideas of what they're doing from outside of themselves: "You have to understand that I'm doing this and doing this." I would say that for 10 years, I have tried to invite people to trust Jesus. You can trust this Jesus. You can trust him past, present, future; sins, mistakes, money, sexuality. I think this Jesus can be trusted.

I often put it this way: If there is a God, some sort of Divine Being, Mind, Spirit, and all of this is not just some random chance thing, and history has some sort of movement to it, and you have a connection with Whatever—that is awesome. Hard and awesome and creative and challenging and provoking.

And there is this group of people who say that whoever that being is came up among us and took on flesh and blood—Andrew Sullivan talks about this immense occasion the world could not bear. So a church would be this odd blend of swagger—an open tomb, come on—and humility and mystery. The Resurrection accounts are jumbled and don't really line up with each other—I really relate to that. Yet something momentous has burst forth in the middle of history. You just have to have faith, and you get caught up in something.

I like to say that I practice militant mysticism. I'm really absolutely sure of some things that I don't quite know.

And here in lies my concern. Bell would say, probably, I am one of those people who feel he has a very clear idea of what I’m doing. And in one way I do, and in one way I don’t. But I do know the gospel is not to be one of those confusing items.

1 John 2 12-13 says, “I am writing to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven for his name’s sake. I am writing to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I am writing to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I write to you, children, because you know the Father.”

1 John 4:13 also says, “By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.”

1 John 5:13 “I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God that you may know that you have eternal life.

The Gospel, our salvation, and God’s redemptive plan for mankind is not intended to be confusing. All it takes is to simply read God's Word. Yes it's deep. Yes it's confusing many times...and yet simple enough a child can be saved.