North Point Community Church Senior Pastor Andy Stanley has said he believes that most people who’ve left the church still maintain “a crush on Jesus.”
When asked what Christians can do to win people back to church, Stanley responded that he believed even those who are not interested in worship still desire to be loved, “especially when things aren’t going well,” he said in an interview with ChristianBook.com that he shared on Twitter Monday for his new book, Irresistible: Reclaiming the New that Jesus Unleashed for the World.
“Post-Christians could care less about my new sermon series. But they’re still interested in matters of faith and spirituality,” said Stanley.
“And — this is big — most post-Christians still have a crush on Jesus. While modern folks may be hesitant to recognize Jesus as divine, they’re not in the least bit hesitant to laud him as someone whose life is worth imitating.”
Stanley also spoke about reaching out to those who are unchurched, saying he refuses to use the statement “the Bible says,” echoing comments he has made in the past.
In his interview with ChristianBook.com, Stanley compared using the term “the Bible says” in modern American culture to using the term “the Quran says.”
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