March 4 - Andy Stanley Apologizes for Saying People Who Go to Small Churches 'Are So Stinkin' Selfish'
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Pastor Andy Stanley issued an apology on social media for a recent sermon in which he said that people who go to a small church "are so stinkin' selfish."
The senior pastor of North Point Community Church in Alpharetta, Georgia, one of the largest churches in the U.S., posted on Twitter on Thursday expressing remorse for his remarks last weekend. "The negative reaction to the clip from last weekend's message is entirely justified. Heck, even I was offended by what I said! I apologize," tweeted Stanley. On the last Sunday of February, Stanley delivered a message to his large congregation arguing that large churches were better for a child's Christian development than smaller churches.
"This is one reason why we build big churches. People say 'why do you have to make them so big?' Let me tell you why," reasoned Stanley."We want churches to be large enough so that there are enough middle schoolers and high schoolers, that we don't have one youth group with middle school and high school together. We want there to be so many adults that there will be so many middle school and high school kids that we can have two separate environments."
Stanley then went on to criticize adults who prefer to go to a congregation that only has a couple hundred members, calling them "selfish." "When I hear adults say 'well I don't like a big church. I like about 200, I want to be able to know everybody' I say you are so stinking selfish," argued Stanley. "You care nothing about the next generation. All you care about is you and your five friends. You don't care about your kids, anybody else's kids."
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