It’s something that’s been part of my tenure at Exodus over the last decade plus.
ALAN CHAMBERSI think, again, if someone wants to know what I believe then look at my life.
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Or any other thing – are those people in danger of losing their salvation over those issues?
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I find it a golden idol, honestly, where we have been hypocritical to ask people to resolve this issue in a way that we haven’t encouraged other people with other struggles to resolve.
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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 think that’s really where we need to be more consistent as believers.
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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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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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I am eternally secure. I gave my heart to Christ and that gift of salvation is irrevocable.
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They’re a wonderful and balanced group of people and I’m grateful for their support.
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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 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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Exodus will do that for people who come to us for help.
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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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Now on to reparative therapy, I think counseling is a wonderful tool for anybody regardless of what struggle they bring to the table.
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Issues of pride and judgment and gossip and slander and other types of sexual immorality, gluttony, you name it.
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And that’s a wonderful thing and that’s what we will always offer at Exodus.
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