Megachurch pastor Andy Stanley is beg cricized for a recent sermon illtratn volvg a gay uple which Stanley labeled adultery, but not homosexualy, a s. "The story was so well told and the msage so well nstcted that there n be ltle doubt of s meang. Do this signal the normalizatn of homosexualy at North Pot Communy Church?" R. Albert Mohler Jr. wrote on his blog.
Contents:
- EX-GAYS CHALLENGE ANDY STANLEY'S STATEMENT ON LGBT COMMUNY'S STRONG FAH
- EX-GAYS RPOND TO ANDY STANLEY’S CLAIM THAT LGBT PEOPLE HAVE ‘MORE FAH THAN A LOT OF YOU’
- PASTOR ANDY STANLEY DRAWS PRAISE, CRICISM FOR ASSERTG GAY CHURCHGOERS 'HAVE MORE FAH THAN I DO'
- ANDY STANLEY TAKEN TO TASK AGA FOR REMARKS ON 'GAYS' AND CHURCH
- ANDY STANLEY SAYS GAY CHURCHGOERS 'HAVE MORE FAH THAN A LOT OF YOU'
EX-GAYS CHALLENGE ANDY STANLEY'S STATEMENT ON LGBT COMMUNY'S STRONG FAH
Pastor Andy Stanley recently left some Christians qutng his stance on homosexualy after preachg a msage on grace and tth that clud an acunt of a gay uple last month. He told The Christian Post he may issue a statement the near future. * andy stanley gay *
Pastor Andy Stanley recently left some Christians qutng his stance on homosexualy after preachg a msage on grace and tth that clud an acunt of a gay uple last month. They separated after the woman's hband began a same-sex relatnship wh another man, who was still married to a man and his partner wanted to serve as volunteers at the church, but Stanley explaed that the two men were mtg adultery sce one of them did not falize his divorce yet and th uld not serve as "msy" story, as Stanley scribed , ends wh the gay uple, the first man's ex-wife and their child, as well as her new boyiend and his child om another relatnship, all g together to worship together at a big service at North Pot Church. Albert Mohler of The Southern Baptist Theologil Semary, to ponr whether Stanley was nmng only adultery and not homosexualy.
"Stanley clearly and repeatedly strsed the s of adultery, but then left the realy of the homosexual relatnship between the two men unaddrsed as s, " Mohler wrote on his blog this week. The moral stat of their relatnship seemed to be qutned only terms of adultery, wh no moral judgment on their homosexualy.
"Both Mohler and Delzell are hopg the Geia pastor will clarify his stance and "affirm the biblil claratn of the sfulns of homosexual behavr, even as he preach the fivens of s any form through the ath and rurrectn of J Christ, " as Mohler first seven parts of Stanley's "Christian" sermon seri are available for viewg on North Pot's official webse. "READ: CHRISTIANITY IS NOT ABOUT GOING FROM GAY TO STRAIGHT; IT'S ABOUT TURNING FROM SIN TO JESUSFree Relig Freedom UpdatJo thoands of others to get the FREEDOM POST newsletter for ee, sent twice a week om The Christian Post. Megachurch pastor Andy Stanley began trendg on Twter this week after a vio surfaced of his teachg about homosexualy and the church.
EX-GAYS RPOND TO ANDY STANLEY’S CLAIM THAT LGBT PEOPLE HAVE ‘MORE FAH THAN A LOT OF YOU’
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This is not the first time his teachg on homosexualy has e unr scty, but is the most recent. He has six exhortatns, but the vio circulatg on the web is a small part of his third pot, which is about 11 mut long and foc exclively on the issue of homosexualy.
In that third pot, Stanley driv home the msage that “The fah of the next generatn is worth leadg our church to acknowledge there are gay people, not jt straight people, wh a s problem.
PASTOR ANDY STANLEY DRAWS PRAISE, CRICISM FOR ASSERTG GAY CHURCHGOERS 'HAVE MORE FAH THAN I DO'
Pastor Andy Stanley Draws Praise, Cricism for Assertg Gay Churchgoers 'Have More Fah Than I Do' by Amanda Casanova - Christian breakg news mentary. * andy stanley gay *
” By this, Stanley means that both gay people and straight people need the mistry of the church. Stanley ntends that church have so mistreated and exclud gay people that church have damaged their credibily to the next generatn.
ANDY STANLEY TAKEN TO TASK AGA FOR REMARKS ON 'GAYS' AND CHURCH
The next generatn of Christians accepts and lov gay people and nnot prehend how Christian church uld possibly refe to do the same. So Stanley ntends that church mt adapt and learn how to clu gay people the life of the church. After all, we should be awe of the self-sacrifice of gay people whose prayers God did not answer and yet who still love God.
In spe of the “clobber” vers om the Bible that nmn homosexualy (Levic 18:22, Romans 1:26-27, 1 Corthians 6:9-11), Christians have a lot to learn om gay men and women “who love J that much and who want to worship wh . Stanley’s msage across as a straightforwardly affirmg posn on homosexualy the church. He valoriz the fah of homosexuals as head-and-shoulrs above the fah of straight Christians.
He says, “the men and women I know who are gay, their fah and their nfince God dwarfs me.
ANDY STANLEY SAYS GAY CHURCHGOERS 'HAVE MORE FAH THAN A LOT OF YOU'
He bsh asi what the Bible says about homosexualy as “clobber” vers, as if those texts somehow harm gay sners.
He even suggts that a change of theology is orr if church n’t wele gay people to their midst.