I’d heard he’d had a lapse of judgement a few years ago and was probably involved in some sort of overwhelming sin. I’m guessing the enemy has taken over his life during this season. Spiritual warfare is real and he desperately needs our prayers.
Actually Pastor Andy Stanley is on board with the “the seeker friendly church movement” which is what his church is. It’s a form of Marketing Churches so to speak.
They actually re-define the leadership roles of the church and use “hot button” corporate means to attract the masses as Steve Jobs or other corporate CEO’S do to attract and sell their product...it turns the church into a marketing agency that says what it thinks its supposed customers want to hear....presenting the gospel as a commodity.....which in another term could be called “seduction”.
Unfortunately..more often than not... forgetting the understanding of the church as ‘the body of Christ’ over ‘which Christ is the head’ who ‘Himself as the Lord of the church’ has already defined the ministry of the church and as well the content for that ministry and the leadership for that ministry and how that leadership is to function.
In most case your average church doesn’t have the resources financially or personal to pull those of this ‘seeker friendy” endevours off so we see the “Mega-churches developing that can....and when you do it often fractures and causes divisions with in the church......therfore there is there’s a lot of fallout to this movement.