Would Rob Gagnon and other people make as big a deal about that as they are with this? I don’t think so.
ALAN CHAMBERSAnd then there are encouragements to use heterosexual pornography or heterosexual images to encourage heterosexual attraction.
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But to say that people who have same-sex attractions are the only group of people who need to go to a therapist to completely resolve those attractions isn’t something I find biblically accurate.
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I 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.
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I know Christ. And that is secure. And I think that is something that actually helps believers pursue his holiness.
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But it doesn’t say anywhere in that passage that the people didn’t still struggle with temptation or that they never fell prey to that sin again whether it was the issue of homosexuality or any of the other things that are listed there.
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But as a property owner of Orlando, I wouldn’t rent to someone who is gay any more than I would rent to a person who is a practicing witch.
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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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A reparative therapist called me and said if you’ll come into therapy with me I can cure you of your temptations and attractions 100 percent.
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Through biblical community in their local church, through honesty and transparency, sharing what it is that troubles them, being accountable.
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When they don’t have to live in that fear or that life of condemnation wondering whether God’s going to yank His relationship from them
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I believe the gay community is a good group of people but with groups like NAMBLA [a pedophile group] riding on their coattails.
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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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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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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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I’ll be very glad to tell them what my faults and my weaknesses are and the areas that I pray about in my life every day.
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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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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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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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The point that I’m trying to make is that we as believers can have security in Christ when we are believers.
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I am opposed to special rights for gays just as I am opposed to special rights for heterosexuals or smokers.
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I am eternally secure. I gave my heart to Christ and that gift of salvation is irrevocable.
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And then there are the offers of using homosexual pornography within the therapeutic process to help people understand why they’re struggling.
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There wasn’t reparative therapy in Corinth. So in this passage I think people came to Christ and experienced a new life in him apart from the therapeutic process.
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We will all struggle, we will all fall prey to some type of sin, some will fall prey to the same types of sin over and over again.
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I’m looking at offering biblical holiness, not an unrealistic expectation for people that will leave them disappointed.
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When I said on national television I still struggle.
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