Let me be clear that I’m not God so I can’t tell you who is and isn’t going to heaven.
ALAN CHAMBERSCertainly 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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Issues of pride and judgment and gossip and slander and other types of sexual immorality, gluttony, you name it.
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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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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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They’re a wonderful and balanced group of people and I’m grateful for their support.
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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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I’m looking at offering biblical holiness, not an unrealistic expectation for people that will leave them disappointed.
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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’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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And that’s a wonderful thing and that’s what we will always offer at Exodus.
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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 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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In all caps PERMANENT – reduction of their same-sex attraction.
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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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I think, again, if someone wants to know what I believe then look at my 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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