Here's a very interesting intramural squabble between Andy Stanley and Al Mohler, which started with a Mohler blog "Is the Megachurch the New Liberalism?" ripping a Stanley sermon. However, there's more to the fight than just one iffy sermon.
(1) Stanley has stepped into a big pile of theological dodo here. Stalling on a responce to the impression that homosexuality is just fine at North Point doesn't help matters. I'm reminded of the early backlash to Rob Bell's Love Wins, where Bell backpeddled on claims of universalism from the promotional material, which proved to be fairly well founded.
(2) Mohler was overstating his case against megachurches; Rick Warren wound up calling him out on it via Twitter. There are overlapping "markets" for varying church styles, and some of those are old-school churches that Mohler would appreciate.
(3) Mohler writes- "As one pastor told him, you cannot grow a church and teach biblical complementarianism." Tell that to Mark Driscoll, although there are times where he seems to be teaching Cro-Magnon complementarianism. There is a market for neo-Reformed thought, just not as big as they'd like.
(4) There is a grace-vs-truth scuffle, but one doesn't need to toss one under the bus to have the other. There are options other than "love the sinner, toss discussion about the sin under the bus" and "hate the sin and toss the sinner under the bus."
(5) I'm not sure if there is a coherent seeker-friendly school of thought, but we have a fight between Mohler's neo-Reformed camp and Stanley's more emergent style. Mohler might have been closer to the truth with a question "Are the Emergents the new liberalism?" Bedside manner gets chucked in the name of doctrine on one end and doctrine gets chucked in the name of missional orthopraxy in the other, at least when distilled to the stereotype level.
More on this later, for this is an interesting case study that may have legs.
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