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.
ALAN CHAMBERSThe ones that are running rampant within our churches largely go unaddressed.
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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 think that’s really where we need to be more consistent as believers.
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A reparative therapist called me and said if you’ll come into therapy with me I can cure you of your temptations and attractions 100 percent.
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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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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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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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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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I can attest to the fact that sexual orientation is not immutable and I urge the city council to vote no on this amendment.
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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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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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Someone’s always calling for my resignation. It’s nothing new.
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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’m looking at offering biblical holiness, not an unrealistic expectation for people that will leave them disappointed.
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