Ralph Ovadal of Pilgrims Covenant Church, Monroe, Wisconsin www.pccmonroe.org, has delivered a strong rebuke of Andy Stanley in the context of a recent sermon on Revelation 22:10-11, "The Filthy, the Foolish, and the Gospel", dated March 24, 2013 which can be found on Sermon Audio at: http://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=3261310400,
and/or played here: http://mp3.sa-media.com/media/3261310400/3261310400.mp3.
It is unfortunately rare for any of today's pastor/leaders to even dare to criticize Andy Stanley or a whole host of emergent types. It is also rare for these same anointed ones to even warn their congregations (old word "flocks") of the dangers of these superstars of Christianity, which are their godlike models for ministry.
We seek to offer a perspective on Stanley first to expand on our previous posts and to supplement further for your increased knowledge and awareness so you can blow away all the smoke veiling the energy filled new paradigm of doing church that Stanley markets. We say "markets" for a good reason. That reason is his adulation for the person of Bill Hybels and his business methodologies applied to the re-casting of "church for the unchurched and irreligious".
We have previously pointed out Stanley's gross (but "purpose driven") naming Obama as our national "pastor-in-chief", despite Obama's evil agendas. But Stanley has deliberately geared all that he says and does to appeal to the unregenerate pop culture rather than show any old fashioned concern about the spiritual growth, maturity, holiness and/or sanctification of existing believers in Christ.
For that un-Biblical purpose and approach to ministry, Stanley has had to re-think, re-cast, re-shape, re-build, and re-design every single aspect of doing church for the "next generation", not for the present one.
Stanley has a track record of his beliefs and practices which are known worldwide, which revolve around the basic concept of "church for the unchurched". We can see and hear that in his own words as reported by the Christian Post in two articles:
http://www.christianpost.com/news/andy-stanley-tells-pastors-to-reach-unchurched-people-make-church-appealing-and-engaging-91920/.
http://www.christianpost.com/news/andy-stanley-christians-are-now-the-minority-must-adapt-approach-to-sharing-gospel-92232/. Stanley's erroneous premise for changing the approach to sharing the gospel based on false idea that the church was a majority but is now a minority without the power or authority it once had.
Andy Stanley on the early church allegedly conducting their first business meeting, using Acts 15:19 here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1vAcsWMLa4.
Andy Stanley promotes his book "Deep & Wide: Creating Churches Unchurched People Love To Attend":
