Or any other thing – are those people in danger of losing their salvation over those issues?
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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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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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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One of the many evils this world has to offer is the sin of homosexuality.
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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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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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I think it’s for me with regards to this issue I believe in justification at the point of salvation.
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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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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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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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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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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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I’m looking at offering biblical holiness, not an unrealistic expectation for people that will leave them disappointed.
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And then there are the offers of using homosexual pornography within the therapeutic process to help people understand why they’re struggling.
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What I know about my relationship with Christ is that as a believer.
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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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