t’s really an encouragement of discipleship, it looks like anything else that we’re offering to anyone else, any other person struggling with any other issue in their life.
ALAN CHAMBERSThat, I think, sets people up for unrealistic expectations and is something that I’m not willing to offer when we’re sharing these types of messages or presenting what was presented to me.
More Alan Chambers Quotes
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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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They’re a wonderful and balanced group of people and I’m grateful for their support.
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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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It’s something that’s been part of my tenure at Exodus over the last decade plus.
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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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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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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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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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There wasn’t reparative therapy in Corinth. So in this passage I think people came to Christ and experienced a new life in him apart from the therapeutic process.
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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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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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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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For someone to promise a percentage type cure for this issue, for instance I had someone who said they had experienced a 90 percent permanent.
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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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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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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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What I know about my relationship with Christ is that as a believer.
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Satan, the enemy is using people to further his agenda to destroy the Kingdom of God and as many souls as he can.
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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 am pursuing Christ wholeheartedly 100 percent. I don’t need a theologian or a set of man-made beliefs to guide me in my daily life.
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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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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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And that’s a wonderful thing and that’s what we will always offer at Exodus.
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Exodus is a very large organization. My board of directors is supportive of me as the president of Exodus and are very much involved in my decision-making and those types of things.
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And then there are encouragements to use heterosexual pornography or heterosexual images to encourage heterosexual attraction.
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If we were talking about one of their sin issues we wouldn’t have addressed this at all. I find that hypocritical and inconsistent.
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