Andy Stanley has taken a fair bit of flack for statements like this one about the inerrancy of scripture:
“When a specific view of inspiration is elevated to the status of doctrine, the Bible becomes an obstacle to faith for some.”
Critics have called Stanley everything from a liberal to a heretic, as Jared Wilson documents here. I can’t speak to the heresy part. I’ve read Stanley’s Irresistible, and you can find the critical commentary it inspired on our Book Reviews page. I think it’s misguided, sometimes gratuitously flippant and outright wrong in places, but I wouldn’t call it heretical in the sense that it would cause me to question Stanley’s devotion to Christ and his people, or his general orthodoxy.
