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Ash Ghinn's avatar

I know this preacher quite well, and what he is doing here is something he often does: Playfully challenging his audience to rethink their stance. Andy Stanley doesn't really think that the only Christians showing quiet forbearance and a Christlike attitude in church are gays! He is employing hyperbole as a technique to stir up and challenge a particular demographic: Those in danger of considering themselves "good Christians". It's a deliberate way of helping such people to look outside themselves (and outside their own "comfort zone") by considering Godliness in someone they'd regard as "other" - or possibly outside the kingdom altogether.

Much like Jesus did when he told about the Pharisee and the sinner going to the temple to pray. Or when he told his story about the "Good Samaritan". We easily form cliques and clans, yet Jesus constantly insists that we don't.

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Meredith Starr's avatar

🤔😕 maybe SSA etc & single people should be as one in the church (as should everyone) because it is hard to feel all alone in a gathering of people meant to be your family... maybe my parents etc where better at this than us I drove my mum & my boys four hours

And half to a birthday party of some one who was single when I was growing but a very important part of our family....we are starting small but praying my boys have the same prefably bigger experience of a (wide) family

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