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.
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More Alan Chambers Quotes
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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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The reason we have distanced ourselves from it is because some of the things that they employ and some of the messages that I’ve heard from reparative therapists with regards to what someone can expect once they get through that type of therapy.
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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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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 for believers you know we are helping people pursue holiness through a relationship with Christ.
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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.
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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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Now on to reparative therapy, I think counseling is a wonderful tool for anybody regardless of what struggle they bring to the table.
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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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But when it comes to someone pointing to this passage and saying homosexuals changed, well, I’m not sure that’s what that passage is referring to.
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I don’t differentiate between this one sin struggle than any other.
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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 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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For some that will mean getting the help or expertise of a counselor that can help them walk through and navigate through some of the traumatic things that they’ve been through in their life.
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