Broken and Grateful // Andy Stanley 

Then vs Now! Amen! Preachers and some men in leadership of churches sometimes use THEN Bible verses to ease their fear toward congregation to control. Pastor Stanley THANK YOU SO MUCH for speaking the truth with courage and boldness! We won't share everything we think but with grace, love and patience...no matter what, we are pressing on to be Christlike each day, abiding in HIM! #Christlike #Jesusisauthority. Heavenly Father, please help us to realize to see who we really serve! Let us NOT serve ourselves (our will, our ideology and our belief) out of fear, in the name of Jesus, but help us to be brave to serve your will not ours. Amen!

It is very easy to misquote Andy if you don’t know his manner of preaching: contextual preaching. You have to follow through the entire message and not a part of it to appreciate the full message. He preaches within context and I consider him one of the most gifted preachers of our time. May the LORD continue to bless him!

I am ready to reconstruct. Then I heard Andy teach this sermon and I feel HOPE. I am Severely Depressed, I am chronically ill and disabled, the worst Is hating my faith because I CANNOT believe in a God that Evangelicals teach abut. THANK YOU PASTOR ANDY. DON'T EVER STOP THIS TYPE OF THINKING AND MOST OF ALL BEING!!❤ I FEEL A GLIMMER OF HOPE.

I love this message. Right on point! Thanks Andy!

Wonderful to hear you again. What has struck me lately is Jesus' instruction to them was "Go and teach what I have taught you."

Christians all over the world need to hear this, the most inclusive, Christlike sermon I have heard!

Thank you Pastor. You are one of the few church leaders making sense this season. What’s important is that God IS watching. So grateful for your voice and work. Looking forward to Revelation 7:9. ❤

Bless you Andy, the Holy Spirit is on you. Bless this message Father 🙏 Thank you Father for your son Jesus, thank you Jesus for the Holy Spirit my best friend 🙏 I am never alone

Pastor Andy, thank you for embracing the truth and for preaching/teaching it with boldness! My prayer: Father God, after "hearing this message" by Pastor Andy, please help me, by the power of the Holy Spirit, to be bold in sharing these truths in the marketplace with those who desperately need You. And Father God, please continue to rest your anointing upon Pastor Andy as he preaches the Word. In the name of Jesus I pray, amen.

Just want to say thank you God for giving Andy this wonderful gift. And thank you Andy for using it to open our eyes and ears to hear His words. This was so appropriate for the crazy times we are living in right now.

Thank you. To be cautious about leaders who need an enemy to further their agenda. Teaching over media to hate and write off those who are hurting and need our support. Then to try to share that I need to FEAR my country and demonize others. Thank you for reminding me to love unconditionally.

Thanks Andy! Christian’s in America need to hear this message really

Jesus loves the little children all the children of the world “THE FAR LEFT AND THE FAR RIGHT” They are precious in His sight Jesus loves the little children of the world.

❤🎉🎉🎉Thank you, Pastor Andy.

Wow! You got guts Andy! You are going to attacked on this one. If God, "Jesus" be for you, who can stand against you. Can't wait to see the ripple effects!

BRAVO. All the opponents are in their own unfocussed world of strife without power.

Amen. You keep being you, dear brother. Your dad was wonderful and so are you. I love your style! I think people tend to attack and criticize Andy because he speaks the truth and he ruffles feathers just like Jesus "ruffled feathers" when He started challenging the old ways of thinking. Andy is truly one of the most brilliant preachers I have ever met. I appreciate his honesty and passion.

So powerful! Thank you so much for this message. I'm praying to receive the heart of my Heavenly Father. I need His love.

My spirit resonates with this word. The contrast between live and hate

Thank you.

Right on It’s the tree of knowledge…

I've waited years for a pastor to acknowledge that democrats can be Christians. Thank you.

This is fabulous! Jesus wasn’t focused on “ sin” but love was his message again and again. Because guess what? There are no “ those” sinners, only “ we” sinners. It’s inclusive. Not “ those” people which is laden with judgement which is the opposite of what Jesus taught. Remember “You will know they are Christians by their love”, not their judgment about sin or political philosophy. Jesus summed it up in his response to the question of what is most important? He said the greatest of these is LOVE- Love God with your heart, soul, strength and mind. And LOVE your neighbor as yourself”. Period. We don’t need to search further for the heart and command of Jesus.

Thank you for that teaching, love our enemies. Even a Democrat.

😮 A controversial sermon. Nothing I have not heard from him but he really puts it out there! This one will not be popular with many but definitely food for thought. My synopsis - also on my shared FB post. 1. Major message is that Jesus has all authority, as he said. Even over Old Testament teachings… The church should be about following Jesus. 2. He discusses hip churches that followed their model but are not based on Jesus. He discusses church that divide their services into traditional and contemporary in order to”reach more people”. Of course, he points to the inward focus of many churches. As has been his message, he includes the inclusivity and diversity, a key part of what Jesus taught, and needs to be readily visible in what the church does. 3. Next: one extremely bold and blunt point was about any church aligning with any political party. The gospel of love extends to those of both parties. The word “hate “ becomes part of churches involved with the far right. Stanley, however, criticized church members of both parties that choose party over being a follower of Jesus. Just begin it and see what you think. I agree 👏🏻

Thank you for this message. I was losing faith in the Jesus a lot of church folks have been displaying.

WOW. Thank you sooo much. If ALL Christ followers at least attempted to model Christ's behavior and love, this world would be a MUCH better place 🙏🏾

Among the points Stanley makes in this sermon, he strives to lead his hearers to the following conclusions concerning Scripture: 1. The Bible is a collection of books, rather than a single book. 2. The authority of the Bible is less than the authority of Christ. 3. The Old Testament is for historic Israel, not for the Church. 4. Being biblical is different from and less than being Christ-like. Though Stanley asserts "I'm so theologically conservative," the above points are a repudiation of *sola Scriptura*, they are theologically moderate, and they will (over time) lead to a rejection of other biblical doctrines that characterize the theologically conservative position.

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What would it take to get Ps Andy Stanley and Dr Jordan Peterson in the same room?

Stanley: "This statement ['all authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me'] has been reduced to simply another statement or another verse in the Bible-equated with every other statement or verse in the Bible-and that is tragic, because Jesus said this 300 plus years before the first Bible was ever assembled." - Obviously, the Old Testament was already assembled before the time of Christ, and recognized as authoritative Scripture by Christ Himself. - Even while the New Testament was still being written, we see writings of the New Testament being accepted as having canonical status. This is evident in Paul's quotation from the Gospel of Luke along with Deuteronomy, found in 1 Timothy 5:17-18 and in Peter's reference to Paul's writings as Scripture in 1 Peter 3:15-16. - Historian W.H.C. Frend notes that the collection of the four gospel accounts and the Apostle Paul's epistles were commonly used in Church worship-being understood to have divine authority-by about A.D. 80. Therefore, we see that the canon was largely recognized long before the time-frame Stanley seems to indicate.

While he sounds good and does have some truth, he never discuss the fact that we need to turn from sin. The Lord outlines that for us. Yes Jesus loved, but did not approve sin. Those who were redeemed left their life of sin, those who stayed in sin Jesus let them walk away. You cannot say you are in the faith if you practice sin as a habit of life. You would be deceived and counted as the tares Among the wheat or the goats among the sheep. I pray often to the Lord, asking him to show me the areas of sin that I am holding onto so I can abandon them and live a life holy pleasing him. He is also is broad brush this issue. There are more churches that are non political than he thinks.

Why a man that openly promotes pro-gay theology allowed any platform in Evangelicalism

I really don’t understand how a Christian can vote Democrat when the platform of the democrats is so fundamentally opposed to Biblical teaching. And yes, I heard what Andy said about being biblical, and I disagree with it. I’m still disturbed by how he is essentially preaching against parts of the bible, the Old Testament in particular.