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.
ALAN CHAMBERSBut 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.
More Alan Chambers Quotes
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They’re a wonderful and balanced group of people and I’m grateful for their support.
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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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Who need to be discipled and to pursue Christ in their life.
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I believe in sanctification at the point of salvation. That doesn’t mean that we don’t continue to mature as believers in Christ. But I believe that we are justified and we are sanctified.
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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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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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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 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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It says in this world you will have trouble in John 16:33 but take heart you can have peace in me because I’ve overcome the world.
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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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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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Or any other thing – are those people in danger of losing their salvation over those issues?
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I think it’s hypocritical and inconsistent for us to attack this one group of people over any other group of people that are within our churches today.
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I think we can all use a little bit of counseling on planet earth today. But when it comes to reparative therapy.
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What I know about my relationship with Christ is that as a believer.
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