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.
ALAN CHAMBERSIt 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.
More Alan Chambers Quotes
-
-
It’s about pursuing a relationship with Christ.
ALAN CHAMBERS -
It’s something that’s been part of my tenure at Exodus over the last decade plus.
ALAN CHAMBERS -
If we were talking about one of their sin issues we wouldn’t have addressed this at all. I find that hypocritical and inconsistent.
ALAN CHAMBERS -
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.
ALAN CHAMBERS -
There wasn’t reparative therapy in Corinth. So in this passage I think people came to Christ and experienced a new life in him apart from the therapeutic process.
ALAN CHAMBERS -
The ones that are running rampant within our churches largely go unaddressed.
ALAN CHAMBERS -
The point that I’m trying to make is that we as believers can have security in Christ when we are believers.
ALAN CHAMBERS -
Through biblical community in their local church, through honesty and transparency, sharing what it is that troubles them, being accountable.
ALAN CHAMBERS -
Exodus will do that for people who come to us for help.
ALAN CHAMBERS -
My beliefs and my desires have changed. They have come into alignment with who he is and who he created you to be.
ALAN CHAMBERS -
I am eternally secure. I gave my heart to Christ and that gift of salvation is irrevocable.
ALAN CHAMBERS -
You know my issue isn’t whether gay people go to heaven or straight people go to heaven.
ALAN CHAMBERS -
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.
ALAN CHAMBERS -
Let me be clear that I’m not God so I can’t tell you who is and isn’t going to heaven.
ALAN CHAMBERS -
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.
ALAN CHAMBERS -
They’re a wonderful and balanced group of people and I’m grateful for their support.
ALAN CHAMBERS -
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.
ALAN CHAMBERS -
One of the many evils this world has to offer is the sin of homosexuality.
ALAN CHAMBERS -
That’s good news and the church should offer it wholeheartedly to anyone.
ALAN CHAMBERS -
I’m looking at offering biblical holiness, not an unrealistic expectation for people that will leave them disappointed.
ALAN CHAMBERS -
I think it’s for me with regards to this issue I believe in justification at the point of salvation.
ALAN CHAMBERS -
We’ve made it bigger; the resolution for this needs to be bigger than for other people.
ALAN CHAMBERS -
So he can add his voice to the chorus of others whether it’s gay activists or now a New Testament professor.
ALAN CHAMBERS -
Within the membership we have 270 or so members within the network of Exodus whether that’s a local member ministry, a counselor or one of our members of our church association.
ALAN CHAMBERS -
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.
ALAN CHAMBERS -
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.
ALAN CHAMBERS