Are the Ten Commandments holding back the gospel?

Andy Stanley raised eyebrows among a number of Christian leaders when he urged in a 2018 sermon series and later a book for the Ten Commandments and the rest of the “Old Testament” to be left behind if the gospel were to move forward with the power it had as it spread rapidly across the Roman Empire.

Stanley is hardly the first to claim that the front two-thirds of the Bible is less authoritative for believers in Yeshua (Jesus) as the Mashiakh (Christ). That has been preached to varying degrees since the early years of the Way (e.g., Marcion in the late first century).

But as a pastor of large Atlanta-area congregations and the son of influential multimedia preacher Charles Stanley, Andy Stanley has a big platform for his teachings. And with the Covington boys school incident in Washington, D.C., involving the Black Hebrew Israel movement being associated with “Hebrew roots,” it’s all the more important to answer the younger Stanley’s claims.

Thankfully, First Fruits of Zion tackled his arguments in this rebuttal.