That’s good news and the church should offer it wholeheartedly to anyone.
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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That, I think, sets people up for unrealistic expectations and is something that I’m not willing to offer when we’re sharing these types of messages or presenting what was presented to me.
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I think it’s for me with regards to this issue I believe in justification at the point of salvation.
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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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Someone’s always calling for my resignation. It’s nothing new.
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I think, again, if someone wants to know what I believe then look at my life.
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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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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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I think that’s really where we need to be more consistent as believers.
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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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It’s about pursuing a relationship with Christ.
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And then there are encouragements to use heterosexual pornography or heterosexual images to encourage heterosexual attraction.
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I can attest to the fact that sexual orientation is not immutable and I urge the city council to vote no on this amendment.
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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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And that’s a wonderful thing and that’s what we will always offer at Exodus.
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The ones that are running rampant within our churches largely go unaddressed.
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My beliefs and my desires have changed. They have come into alignment with who he is and who he created you to be.
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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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Through biblical community in their local church, through honesty and transparency, sharing what it is that troubles them, being accountable.
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Or any other thing – are those people in danger of losing their salvation over those issues?
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What I know about my relationship with Christ is that as a believer.
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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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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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Exodus is a very large organization. My board of directors is supportive of me as the president of Exodus and are very much involved in my decision-making and those types of things.
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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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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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I think for believers you know we are helping people pursue holiness through a relationship with Christ.
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