I’m not saying that people should live in unrepentant sin. I’m not saying that that’s a mark of a mature believer at all.
ALAN CHAMBERSIt’s about pursuing a relationship with Christ.
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It’s about pursuing a relationship with Christ.
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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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In all caps PERMANENT – reduction of their same-sex attraction.
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That’s good news and the church should offer it wholeheartedly to anyone.
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How can we quantify that? How can you even know that that’s what you have experienced? And what if at some point you fall to 85 percent or 70 percent?
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I think, again, if someone wants to know what I believe then look at my life.
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Or any other thing – are those people in danger of losing their salvation over those issues?
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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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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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What I know about my relationship with Christ is that as a believer.
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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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I think for believers you know we are helping people pursue holiness through a relationship with Christ.
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I am pursuing Christ wholeheartedly 100 percent. I don’t need a theologian or a set of man-made beliefs to guide me in my daily life.
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I think we’ve made it a golden idol. I think we in the church have treated it differently than we’ve treated anything else.
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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 think we have to do a better job than we’ve done. So I do think there is, people rush to judgment and rush to clarify their point on this issue in ways that they don’t’ rush to judgment and to clarity on other issues.
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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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They’re a wonderful and balanced group of people and I’m grateful for their support.
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Issues of pride and judgment and gossip and slander and other types of sexual immorality, gluttony, you name it.
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We’ve made it bigger; the resolution for this needs to be bigger than for other people.
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Exodus will do that for people who come to us for help.
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And that’s a wonderful thing and that’s what we will always offer at Exodus.
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Would Rob Gagnon and other people make as big a deal about that as they are with this? I don’t think so.
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Who need to be discipled and to pursue Christ in their life.
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One of the many evils this world has to offer is the sin of homosexuality.
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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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