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.
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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I think it’s for me with regards to this issue I believe in justification at the point of salvation.
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I can attest to the fact that sexual orientation is not immutable and I urge the city council to vote no on this amendment.
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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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When they don’t have to live in that fear or that life of condemnation wondering whether God’s going to yank His relationship from them
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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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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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Or any other thing – are those people in danger of losing their salvation over those issues?
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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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In all caps PERMANENT – reduction of their same-sex attraction.
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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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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.
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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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The ones that are running rampant within our churches largely go unaddressed.
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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.
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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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