Snippets from Rob Bell's interview

In response to the question "Is heaven a real place?", Rob Bell says that it is. He does on to discuss the peace that a dying man had in his final moments as his body is about to give out, and describes his experience of being with that man as 'rubbing up against' the reality of heaven.

He essentially says (about as close as he ever seems to go to actually saying anything concretely) that heaven is a reality that is experienced by humans in the here and now. That man's peace as his body was about to give out, was him being in heaven.

Of Jesus, he says:

As opposed to 'how do we get there?', his interest is more about 'how do we get 'there' to be here?'.