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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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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This is the church’s job. This is who we are as the body of Christ to reach out to people who are in need, who are struggling.
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For other people who are involved in unrepentant sin whether it’s the sin of homosexual sexual expression or gluttony or pride or heterosexual sexual expression outside of a monogamous heterosexual marriage.
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That’s good news and the church should offer it wholeheartedly to anyone.
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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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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 know Christ. And that is secure. And I think that is something that actually helps believers pursue his holiness.
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But as a property owner of Orlando, I wouldn’t rent to someone who is gay any more than I would rent to a person who is a practicing witch.
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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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I’m looking at offering biblical holiness, not an unrealistic expectation for people that will leave them disappointed.
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Someone’s always calling for my resignation. It’s nothing new.
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I think that’s really where we need to be more consistent as believers.
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Or any other thing – are those people in danger of losing their salvation over those issues?
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But we will encourage the church to do that in general for anyone and everyone who’s seeking to be a mature believer in Christ.
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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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