The ones that are running rampant within our churches largely go unaddressed.
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More Alan Chambers Quotes
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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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In all caps PERMANENT – reduction of their same-sex attraction.
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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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I am opposed to special rights for gays just as I am opposed to special rights for heterosexuals or smokers.
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So he can add his voice to the chorus of others whether it’s gay activists or now a New Testament professor.
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You know my issue isn’t whether gay people go to heaven or straight people go 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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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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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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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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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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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.
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So to pick and choose that once you come to Christ you’re never going to struggle in those areas again or never fall prey to stumbling in those ways again, I just, I don’t think we can assure that.
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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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