When I said on national television I still struggle.
ALAN CHAMBERSBut 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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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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And then there are encouragements to use heterosexual pornography or heterosexual images to encourage heterosexual attraction.
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I think we’ve made it a golden idol. I think we in the church have treated it differently than we’ve treated anything else.
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We’ve made it bigger; the resolution for this needs to be bigger than for other people.
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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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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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I think for believers you know we are helping people pursue holiness through a relationship with Christ.
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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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And that’s a wonderful thing and that’s what we will always offer at Exodus.
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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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They’re a wonderful and balanced group of people and I’m grateful for their support.
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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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It’s about pursuing a relationship with Christ.
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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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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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