Andy Stanley Redefines Sin / Rejects Biblical Definition in 1 John 3:4

Hello, in this video I just want to cover Andy Stanley's new sermon where he now has a new interesting definition of what sin is. Watch.

The Temple Model Versus the Jesus Model of Sin

When Jesus showed up, it was the temple model, and the message of the temple model was this. When you sin, you break God's law. The Jesus model sounded like this. When you sin, you break yourself and others, which breaks God's heart.

Okay, so the Bible says in 1 John 3, verse 4, that sin is the transgression of the law. So, breaking God's law, that is how the Bible defines sin. And that's the New Testament definition. But somehow, Andy, after 2 ,000 years, has come up with a completely new explanation.

Why the New Definition of Sin Is Seen as a Denial of Biblical Authority

Why? Well, I would argue the reason is because he now affirms sin at his church. North Point Community Church just baptized an open, unrepentant, transgender person. So, the Bible clearly lists that, and a lot of other things, as sin.

So, if Andy is going to affirm what the Bible calls sin, he clearly can't go by the Bible. He has to come up with his own definition. And that's what he's doing. In this new sermon series, titled The Fundamental List, which is a play on words because Andy Stanley thinks fundamentalists are ridiculous.

You know, they just go by the Bible. I mean, how absurd is that? But Andy Stanley has already indicated that the Christian teaching of hell or eternal punishment is something that should be discarded.

You can watch my recent video about that, that I posted yesterday. But really, the bigger issue, I think the biggest issue is that Andy is, let's face it, he's denying the authority of God's Word. He's already taught that Christians should unhitch from the Old Testament.

Now, since he's denying the New Testament definition of sin, it looks like he wants to unhitch the New Testament as well. In his last sermon from this series, he indicated that really only the four Gospels matter.

They matter more than all the other, like the epistles of Paul. So, that's the most obvious problem. Andy is not preaching the Bible. The Bible gets to define what sin is. Why? Because God gets to define that.

The Pastor's Job Is to Preach the Word

Andy Stanley does not get to just make up whatever he wants and reinvent the Christian faith. A pastor's job, according to 2 Timothy 4, is to preach the Word. Andy is clearly not doing that. He is preaching his own opinions.

And again and again, he is discouraging people from going back to the Bible as the authority. So, that's the real danger, that he's a pastor who's not preaching the Bible. You shouldn't listen to pastors who don't preach the Bible.

A Dangerous Redefinition of Sin and the Rejection of Hell

So, his new definition of sin is exactly that. It's a new definition. That is not how the Bible defines sin. So, this is very dangerous, and I suspect with this and seeming denial of hell, how we should get rid of that.

It's not a fundamental. You don't have to believe that. There's going to be more to come.