From The Baptist Press:
NASHVILLE (BP) — Andy Stanley has said controversial things before. He said small churches are “selfish” and “inferior to big churches” in 2016. Two years later he said Christianity must be “unhitched” from the Old Testament. The list goes on. But his latest comments on LGBTQ issues seem different to journalist and commentator Warren Cole Smith.
They may represent a fork in the road for evangelicalism.
“Andy has a habit of making misstatements in public and then walking them back,” said Smith, president of Ministry Watch, a watchdog group for Protestant ministries. “I find that frustrating. I wish he wouldn’t do it.” But this time “Andy didn’t just misspeak.” His views were programmed, his statements planned. More Here