Saying LGBTQ+ People Have Faith is Blasphemy: Christian Post Exec Editor Richard D. Land
Land calls Andy Stanley’s observation about LGBTQ faith “astounding”
Andy Stanley is the founder of North Point Ministries and the son of one of the biggest names in the American Evangelical church: Charles Stanley, founder of In Touch Ministries.
In 2012, John Blake reported for CNN that an incident while Andy was growing up stuck with him:
One Sunday, a gay pride group planned to march past his father’s church. Leaders of the congregation, warned in advance, dismissed church early to avoid contact with the group. But organizers of the march changed the schedule. Andy watched as First Baptist members filed out of the church and gawked at gay and lesbian marchers streaming by. Then he noticed a Methodist church across the street whose members held out cups of water for marchers and signs that said, “Everybody welcome! Come worship with us!”
“We’re the church that sings ‘Just as I Am’ after the sermon, and here we are shunning this group of people because of a lifestyle we disagreed with,” he says now.
Later, after Andy Stanley’s own ministry had grown in a “satellite” church affiliated with his father’s church, his parents’ divorce rocked him to his…
