Or any other thing – are those people in danger of losing their salvation over those issues?
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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When I said on national television I still struggle.
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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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I’ll be very glad to tell them what my faults and my weaknesses are and the areas that I pray about in my life every day.
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That, 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.
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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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I think for believers you know we are helping people pursue holiness through a relationship with Christ.
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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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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 don’t differentiate between this one sin struggle than any other.
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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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And then there are encouragements to use heterosexual pornography or heterosexual images to encourage heterosexual attraction.
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I think we as believers can be secure in our relationship with Christ. I’m not saying that sin isn’t sin.
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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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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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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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