I think it’s for me with regards to this issue I believe in justification at the point of salvation.
ALAN CHAMBERSI am opposed to special rights for gays just as I am opposed to special rights for heterosexuals or smokers.
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Would Rob Gagnon and other people make as big a deal about that as they are with this? I don’t think so.
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I think for believers you know we are helping people pursue holiness through a relationship with 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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What I know about my relationship with Christ is that as a believer.
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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.
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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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I believe the gay community is a good group of people but with groups like NAMBLA [a pedophile group] riding on their coattails.
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It’s about pursuing a relationship with Christ.
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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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That’s good news and the church should offer it wholeheartedly to anyone.
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We will all struggle, we will all fall prey to some type of sin, some will fall prey to the same types of sin over and over again.
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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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You know my issue isn’t whether gay people go to heaven or straight people go to heaven.
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And that’s a wonderful thing and that’s what we will always offer at Exodus.
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One of the many evils this world has to offer is the sin of homosexuality.
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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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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 know Christ. And that is secure. And I think that is something that actually helps believers pursue his holiness.
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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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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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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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Through biblical community in their local church, through honesty and transparency, sharing what it is that troubles them, being accountable.
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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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In all caps PERMANENT – reduction of their same-sex attraction.
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And then there are encouragements to use heterosexual pornography or heterosexual images to encourage heterosexual attraction.
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