I think that’s really where we need to be more consistent as believers.
ALAN CHAMBERSI think for believers you know we are helping people pursue holiness through a relationship with Christ.
More Alan Chambers Quotes
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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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Satan, the enemy is using people to further his agenda to destroy the Kingdom of God and as many souls as he can.
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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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Issues of pride and judgment and gossip and slander and other types of sexual immorality, gluttony, you name it.
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The ones that are running rampant within our churches largely go unaddressed.
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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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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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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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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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I don’t differentiate between this one sin struggle than any other.
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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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And then there are encouragements to use heterosexual pornography or heterosexual images to encourage heterosexual attraction.
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In all caps PERMANENT – reduction of their same-sex attraction.
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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 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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