Andy Stan­ley Responds To Crit­i­cism on His Sup­port for Homo­sex­u­al­i­ty

We cov­ered Al Mohler’s hyp­o­crit­i­cal con­dem­na­tion of Andy Stan­ley on homo­sex­u­al­i­ty. Now Andy Stan­ley has begun his dam­age con­trol, start­ing with preach­ing a “ser­mon” (which was not streamed) as phase one of his response to crit­i­cism. The ser­mon, which so far has been released by Protes­tia, though there are rumors that North Point will release the ser­mon, was a mess of ratio­nal­iza­tion, self jus­ti­fi­ca­tion, and manip­u­la­tion. In iso­la­tion it may not be too bad, but the con­fer­ence (see our arti­cle on Mohler’s arti­cle) was bad. When you invite “LGBT activists,” some of whom are men “mar­ried” to oth­er men, it’s hard to claim you do not have an unbib­li­cal view of homo­sex­u­al­i­ty.

This is ampli­fied by Andy’s “ser­mon,” where the Bible was not touched, but many claims were made about “gay peo­ple pray­ing for God to change them, and He did­n’t answer.” Andy makes it clear that peo­ple need to be loved where they’re at, and attempts should not be made to change them, despite Andy claim­ing that “Bib­li­cal mar­riage is between a man and a woman.” By Andy’s own log­ic, he is encour­ag­ing leav­ing peo­ple to suf­fer under the bondage of sin, and that God is unable or unwill­ing to free peo­ple from their sin.

Let’s be clear, God is both able and will­ing to free peo­ple from sin, in fact He died on a cross to prove that. There is a way out. Ask any­one who has faced a temp­ta­tion, alco­holism, pornog­ra­phy, gam­bling, if over­com­ing it was instan­ta­neous, or if it required a heart-soul-mind-strength com­mit­ment to God, His word, account­abil­i­ty to oth­er believ­ers, prayer, study, etc. The truth is, if these “gay” peo­ple that Andy say God “did­n’t answer their prayers” are Chris­tians, then He did answer their prayers. He gave them the Holy Spir­it and His church, and you’ll nev­er find any­thing more pow­er­ful and sup­port for over­com­ing sin than that. The clear truth is, Andy is still push­ing an unbib­li­cal view of homo­sex­u­al­i­ty, even as he tries to play dam­age con­trol.

⁶There­fore hum­ble your­selves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time, ⁷ cast­ing all your care upon Him, for He cares for you.

⁸ Be sober, be vig­i­lant; because your adver­sary the dev­il walks about like a roar­ing lion, seek­ing whom he may devour. ⁹ Resist him, stead­fast in the faith, know­ing that the same suf­fer­ings are expe­ri­enced by your broth­er­hood in the world. ¹⁰ But may the God of all grace, who called us to His eter­nal glo­ry by Christ Jesus, after you have suf­fered a while, per­fect, estab­lish, strength­en, and set­tle you.

1 Peter 5:6–10 Empha­sis added

We’ve writ­ten about oth­er com­pro­mis­es Andy has in the past, as well as fea­tur­ing him on the Woke­pe­dia Pod­cast, click below to find out more.