(CBN News) – A trio of Messianic Jewish leaders in the Atlanta area is the latest to publicly sound alarms concerning the “replacement theology” teachings about Christians and the Old Testament by Andy Stanley, pastor of North Point, the nation’s second largest church. In his latest controversial comments about Christians moving away from the Ten Commandments, Stanley said, “The new covenant replaced the old one. The covenant established by Jesus retired the covenant God established with the nation of
Israel.” Stanley sparked controversy last year when he preached a sermon series calling on Christians to “unhitch” their faith from the Old Testament. That sounded, to many believers, Jewish and Gentile, like a form of replacement theology—the idea that the Church has replaced biblical Israel and that God’s promises to Israel as a nation and the Jews as a people are essentially over. At the time, Stanley said his words had been taken out of context. READ MORE
