I completely agree with you. I have attended NPCC on and off for 15 years and I have not seen Andy take any direct conservative side to his sermons. In fact He has an increasingly “one world” message that really botheres me so much I started attending his father’s church instead. I think that Andy is falling down a path of wanting to be “cool” and “politically correct”. He is really leading a large group of Atlanta’s youth in the wrong direction! If you really listen to his sermons with a clear conservative view, then it becomes obvious he is walking a fine line not to offend his liberal members and in fact favors that view. I think Andy’s church tries to be “attractive” to the general community just like Randy Pope’s church- Perimeter Church. It is all just “too cool for school” if you know what I mean.
“It is all just “too cool for school” if you know what I mean.”
Your post is spot on.
I read that he will be participating in Rick Warren’s Radicalis Pastor’s conference. Warren’s already gone off the deep end if you ask me. He will have a mysticist as one of the participants there. I’m not saying Andy has gone that far but it sounds like he’s headed that direction.
That is one of the scary things about being a “seeker-friendly” church, some get very close to that “line”, and it doesn’t take much to push them over.
I go to a contemporary, caring and upbeat church, but they are doctrinally sound. The environment is seeker-friendly, but only to a point. They don’t tiptoe around sin, they preach it is sin and are not afraid to offend.