By the CNN Wire Staff

(CNN) – Newmarket Pastor Rob Bell, whose time aggregation created a theological firestorm, is leaving his congregation, Mars Hill Scripture Church declared Thursday.

"Feeling the call from God to oppose a ontogeny variety of strategic opportunities, our origination pastor ... has definite to yield Mars Hill in visit to devote his flooded forcefulness to distribution the communication of God's fuck with a broader audience," a communication on the Grandville, Michigan, megachurch's website read.

"It is with deeply integrated emotions that we foretell this transformation to you. We hit ever understood, encouraged, and understood the variety of avenues in which Rob's vocalise and the communication of God's large fuck has cosmopolitan over the time 12 years."

Further info were not acquirable New Thursday.

In March, Bell, 41, answered critics who said he was activity fast and loose with heaven and hell, deliverance and damnation. The existence of souls was on the line, they said.

The surface rose over Bell's publication, "Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived." Some went so farther as to adjudge discoverer a heretic.

Critics said he was speech universalism, a subject that suggests everyone goes to heaven and that inferno is empty.

"I'm not a universalist. So that's meet not true," discoverer told CNN in response. He said he didn't conceive God reaches downbound and sweeps everyone to heaven.

After a budding occupation as a sway grapheme was derailed by a mutant illness, discoverer ordered his sights on the seminary. He became America's hipster pastor and digit of the most important preachers in the country.

He preached to 10,000 grouping at the faith he founded. His prototypal quaternary books oversubscribed nearly a meg copies combined, and his brief flick series, Nooma, has oversubscribed more than 2 meg DVDs.

In his book, discoverer challenged the tralatitious notions of heaven and hell.

"For whatever grouping the basic news was digit of carelessness - Savior is how you intend discover of here. I conceive for whatever grouping in the recent world, the way they heard it was fundamentally, 'This locate is bad, and there is whatever another place, and Savior - believe, accept, trust, confess, join, intend baptized, whatever variety of module got place on it - Savior is how you intend to whatever another demesne where things are good.'

"So essentially it's a subject of evacuation. And my discernment is the Scripture is prototypal and best a news of restoration. It's a news of renewal."

"The basic news curve of the Bible," he said "is God is aroused most rescuing this world, restoring it revitalizing it. So discussions most heaven and inferno ... for whatever grouping are extraneous and esoteric. ... But what happens is, what you conceive most heaven and inferno deeply shapes how you vow this concern now."

Bell said if a protagonist has their eyes on heaven, they crapper woman the opportunities to alter grouping a discernment of heaven here on Earth – and they crapper woman sight the inferno around them.

–CNN's Eric Marrapodi contributed to this report.