I think that’s really where we need to be more consistent as believers.
ALAN CHAMBERSIssues of pride and judgment and gossip and slander and other types of sexual immorality, gluttony, you name it.
More Alan Chambers Quotes
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But as a property owner of Orlando, I wouldn’t rent to someone who is gay any more than I would rent to a person who is a practicing witch.
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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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I believe the gay community is a good group of people but with groups like NAMBLA [a pedophile group] riding on their coattails.
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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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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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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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Or any other thing – are those people in danger of losing their salvation over those issues?
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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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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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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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I’m not saying that people should live in unrepentant sin. I’m not saying that that’s a mark of a mature believer at all.
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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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It’s something that’s been part of my tenure at Exodus over the last decade plus.
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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 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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