Welp, Andy Stanley is back again with another "fresh" and "modern" take on Christianity.
This time, in a recent sermon, Stanley asked the question about miracles. Do you have to believe in miracles, you know, all of the documented miraculous events in the gospels and in the Old Testament, in order to be a Christian.
He says you only have to believe in two.
The answer is yes, but you only have to believe in two miracles to be a Christian ... Most of you, most of the people in the world already believe in one of them. And if you believe in the second one, it opens the door to making the other miracles more acceptable.
So, already, Stanley is sinking to the lows of seeker sensitivity. He's so hip and cool to the modern world. He's letting people in his church know that they can toss out 90% of the Bible, as long as they believe in two miracles out of the hundreds. If you can have just an iota more faith than Thomas Jefferson, you're in.
Here, Stanley gets in to the two necessary miracles.
The miracle of the universe is the foundation of our faith in God.
Okay, good start. If you don't believe God created the universe, then you don't have any faith.
Then he skips a large chunk of time and tells us the second miracle that matters.
The miracle of the resurrection is the foundation of our faith ... if you're looking for minimal number of miracles you have to believe to be a Christian ... you just start here.
You can reject, outright, God's word on miracles, according to Stanley. Deny his revelation. But if you believe God created all things and Jesus was raised from the dead, you're good to go.
Reminds me of what the Apostle Paul warned Timothy of ...
But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these.
People who claim Christianity but deny the power of God are to be avoided. This narrow form of Christianity, this "bare minimum of belief" that seeks to make faith an easy thing, is not godly.
It's fake.
What has happened to the American church where we're so ashamed of the Bible that we'll tell believers they can deny the virgin birth, deny the miracles of Christ, the raising of Lazarus, deny the miracles in the Old Testament like God causing the sun to stand still, and can still claim the name of Christianity?
He's taken all of the teeth out of the Bible.
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