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.
ALAN CHAMBERSHow 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?
More Alan Chambers Quotes
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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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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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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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Someone’s always calling for my resignation. It’s nothing new.
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When I said on national television I still struggle.
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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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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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It’s something that’s been part of my tenure at Exodus over the last decade plus.
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And then there are encouragements to use heterosexual pornography or heterosexual images to encourage heterosexual attraction.
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Certainly if someone looks at my life, they will see that I have surrendered my heart, my life to Jesus Christ.
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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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The ones that are running rampant within our churches largely go unaddressed.
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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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My beliefs and my desires have changed. They have come into alignment with who he is and who he created you to be.
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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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