Pastor Andy Stanley Draws Praise, Cricism for Assertg Gay Churchgoers 'Have More Fah Than I Do' - Amanda Casanova

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.

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.

EX-GAYS RPOND TO ANDY STANLEY’S CLAIM THAT LGBT PEOPLE HAVE ‘MORE FAH THAN A LOT OF YOU’

"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. 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. ” By this, Stanley means that both gay people and straight people need the mistry of the church.

PASTOR ANDY STANLEY DRAWS PRAISE, CRICISM FOR ASSERTG GAY CHURCHGOERS 'HAVE MORE FAH THAN I DO'

Stanley ntends that church have so mistreated and exclud gay people that church have damaged their credibily to the next generatn.

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.

ANDY STANLEY TAKEN TO TASK AGA FOR REMARKS ON 'GAYS' AND CHURCH

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.

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. On the one hand, his remarks seem to foc not on gay people general but on those who experience a te nversn to Christ.

ANDY STANLEY SAYS GAY CHURCHGOERS 'HAVE MORE FAH THAN A LOT OF YOU'

On the other hand, his remarks do not mentn repentance om homosexualy or that homosexualy is even sful at all. Nor is there any suggtn that a gay liftyle might be patible wh followg Christ. Rather, his words suggt that gay people are extra-righteo for beg willg to love a God who would ny them the sir of their hearts.

It’s no wonr so many have terpreted his words as affirmg homosexualy, even though he himself might blanch at the suggtn. The moral stat of homosexualy the church is one of the most ntted issu of our time. There are false teachers abroad sistg that the church’s nfince Scripture and s 2, 000-year-old nsens on the moral stat of homosexualy are all wrong and need to be changed.

They ntradict the Apostle Pl’s words 1 Corthians 6:9 by claimg that gay people don’t need to repent of homosexualy and n ed her the kgdom of God as impenent gay sners. Stanley don’t challenge any of this, but stead adopts some of the very same rhetoric om “gay Christiany” to nfe the issue. At bt, he vaguely signals to sirs that “gay is not okay” while signalg to outsirs that perhaps is okay after all.