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 CHAMBERSIt’s something that’s been part of my tenure at Exodus over the last decade plus.
More Alan Chambers Quotes
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Someone’s always calling for my resignation. It’s nothing new.
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I think we have to do a better job than we’ve done. So I do think there is, people rush to judgment and rush to clarify their point on this issue in ways that they don’t’ rush to judgment and to clarity on other issues.
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I think we as believers can be secure in our relationship with Christ. I’m not saying that sin isn’t sin.
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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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Through biblical community in their local church, through honesty and transparency, sharing what it is that troubles them, being accountable.
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We’ve made it bigger; the resolution for this needs to be bigger than for other people.
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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 believe in sanctification at the point of salvation. That doesn’t mean that we don’t continue to mature as believers in Christ. But I believe that we are justified and we are sanctified.
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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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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 point that I’m trying to make is that we as believers can have security in Christ when we are believers.
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It 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.
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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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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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Or any other thing – are those people in danger of losing their salvation over those issues?
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