But sin resides, the power of sin resides in our flesh. It will always try us and it was always tempt us and therefore we always need to be submitting our mind, will and emotions to the lordship of Jesus Christ.
ALAN CHAMBERSI find it a golden idol, honestly, where we have been hypocritical to ask people to resolve this issue in a way that we haven’t encouraged other people with other struggles to resolve.
More Alan Chambers Quotes
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I think we can all use a little bit of counseling on planet earth today. But when it comes to reparative therapy.
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If we were talking about one of their sin issues we wouldn’t have addressed this at all. I find that hypocritical and inconsistent.
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Within the membership we have 270 or so members within the network of Exodus whether that’s a local member ministry, a counselor or one of our members of our church association.
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Well, I find it interesting first that this all centers around the issue of homosexuality and we don’t bring in any other sin issue into the picture.
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I think it’s hypocritical and inconsistent for us to attack this one group of people over any other group of people that are within our churches today.
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I think we as believers can be secure in our relationship with Christ. I’m not saying that sin isn’t sin.
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For someone to promise a percentage type cure for this issue, for instance I had someone who said they had experienced a 90 percent permanent.
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It says in this world you will have trouble in John 16:33 but take heart you can have peace in me because I’ve overcome the world.
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I believe in sanctification at the point of salvation. That doesn’t mean that we don’t continue to mature as believers in Christ. But I believe that we are justified and we are sanctified.
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I don’t differentiate between this one sin struggle than any other.
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You know my issue isn’t whether gay people go to heaven or straight people go to heaven.
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I think, again, if someone wants to know what I believe then look at my life.
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So he can add his voice to the chorus of others whether it’s gay activists or now a New Testament professor.
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But we will encourage the church to do that in general for anyone and everyone who’s seeking to be a mature believer in Christ.
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This is the church’s job. This is who we are as the body of Christ to reach out to people who are in need, who are struggling.
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