I think it’s for me with regards to this issue I believe in justification at the point of salvation.
ALAN CHAMBERSt’s really an encouragement of discipleship, it looks like anything else that we’re offering to anyone else, any other person struggling with any other issue in their life.
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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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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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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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When I said on national television I still struggle.
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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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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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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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Exodus will do that for people who come to us for help.
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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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I am sorry we promoted sexual orientation change efforts and reparative theories about sexual orientation that stigmatized parents.
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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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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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Or any other thing – are those people in danger of losing their salvation over those issues?
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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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