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 CHAMBERSThis 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.
More Alan Chambers Quotes
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And that’s a wonderful thing and that’s what we will always offer at Exodus.
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Someone’s always calling for my resignation. It’s nothing new.
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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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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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Certainly if someone looks at my life, they will see that I have surrendered my heart, my life to Jesus 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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Exodus will do that for people who come to us for help.
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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 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 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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I know Christ. And that is secure. And I think that is something that actually helps believers pursue his holiness.
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I think that’s really where we need to be more consistent as believers.
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In all caps PERMANENT – reduction of their same-sex attraction.
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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 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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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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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’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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I don’t differentiate between this one sin struggle than any other.
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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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It’s something that’s been part of my tenure at Exodus over the last decade plus.
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Certainly anyone who comes to faith in Christ has a new heart and they have an opportunity for new life and that’s a wonderful thing.
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Let me be clear that I’m not God so I can’t tell you who is and isn’t going to heaven.
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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 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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