But when it comes to someone pointing to this passage and saying homosexuals changed, well, I’m not sure that’s what that passage is referring to.
ALAN CHAMBERSAnd then there are the offers of using homosexual pornography within the therapeutic process to help people understand why they’re struggling.
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And then there are encouragements to use heterosexual pornography or heterosexual images to encourage heterosexual attraction.
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I’ll be very glad to tell them what my faults and my weaknesses are and the areas that I pray about in my life every day.
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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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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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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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That, I think, sets people up for unrealistic expectations and is something that I’m not willing to offer when we’re sharing these types of messages or presenting what was presented to me.
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t’s really an encouragement of discipleship, it looks like anything else that we’re offering to anyone else, any other person struggling with any other issue in their life.
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It’s about pursuing a relationship with Christ.
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I think we’ve made it a golden idol. I think we in the church have treated it differently than we’ve treated anything else.
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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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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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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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I know Christ. And that is secure. And I think that is something that actually helps believers pursue his holiness.
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For some that will mean getting the help or expertise of a counselor that can help them walk through and navigate through some of the traumatic things that they’ve been through in their 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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