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 CHAMBERSNow on to reparative therapy, I think counseling is a wonderful tool for anybody regardless of what struggle they bring to the table.
More Alan Chambers Quotes
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One of the many evils this world has to offer is the sin of homosexuality.
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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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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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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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But we will encourage the church to do that in general for anyone and everyone who’s seeking to be a mature believer in Christ.
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Let me be clear that I’m not God so I can’t tell you who is and isn’t going to heaven.
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What I know about my relationship with Christ is that as a believer.
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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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It’s something that’s been part of my tenure at Exodus over the last decade plus.
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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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I think it’s hypocritical and inconsistent for us to attack this one group of people over any other group of people that are within our churches today.
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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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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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I’m looking at offering biblical holiness, not an unrealistic expectation for people that will leave them disappointed.
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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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