“Every instruction in the Bible regarding marriage references or assumes a husband and a wife, a man or a woman. “We talk about and teach about marriage the same way Jesus and the apostles do,” Stanley explained. In other words, what the Apostle Paul called sin was sin then and it’s sin now.” And we affirm exactly what the Apostle Paul says. To clarify even further, Stanley said: “We affirm all three of the Apostle Paul’s statements on the topic of same-sex sex - Romans 1, 1 Corinthians 6, 1 Timothy 1 - he references this. Don’t sexualize a relationship outside of marriage.”.“If you’re going to follow Jesus, here’s what it looks like sexually to follow Jesus:

“We teach what I refer to as a New Testament sexual ethic,” Stanley said. “He did not really clarify his personal convictions on LGBTQ issues, nor did he really clarify the position or policy of his church,” Mohler claimed.Ĭontrast that with Stanley’s own words from the sermon itself. The sermon was preached after Stanley and his Atlanta church were denounced by Mohler and others for hosting a conference to help parents of LGBTQ kids. 1 sermon given how dishonestly he mischaracterized it. One wonders if Mohler even listened to Stanley’s Oct. “The train has indeed left the station, and my guess is that even Andy Stanley has no assurance of where his logic is headed.” Let’s clarify where Andy Stanley is headed It is Andy Stanley’s own invention, and it is not plausible,” Mohler warns. Mohler, president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, agrees, calling Stanley’s sermon “a subversion of the gospel,” a “first-order crisis,” and “a departure from the faith once delivered to the saints.” Instead, they claim, “North Point as a whole is implicated” and the megachurch “invites the censure of Christ himself.” Russell Moore, editor of Christianity Today, serves as minister in residence at Immanuel Nashville.įor Allberry and Christianity Today, it is not simply enough to call out the conference or Stanley. Allberry serves as associate pastor of Immanuel Nashville and is the author of Is God Anti-Gay? and You’re Not Crazy: Gospel Sanity for Weary Churches.

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