Andy Stanley wants us to “unhitch the old from the new”.
By “old”, he means our Old Testament. By “new”, he
means ... okay, you get that.
By “unhitch”, he means declaring the Old Testament so obsolete,
incorrect and potentially faith-destroying that we distance ourselves from it
rather than try to explain, defend or rationalize it to others.
To say the least, Stanley’s new book, Irresistible: Reclaiming the New that Jesus Unleashed for the World, is a bit of a grenade in the baptistery. It also sounds to me like a sustained argument for intellectual cowardice, but I’ll leave that to Stanley’s readers to decide.