Issues of pride and judgment and gossip and slander and other types of sexual immorality, gluttony, you name it.
ALAN CHAMBERSThrough biblical community in their local church, through honesty and transparency, sharing what it is that troubles them, being accountable.
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You know my issue isn’t whether gay people go to heaven or straight people go to heaven.
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That’s good news and the church should offer it wholeheartedly to anyone.
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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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In all caps PERMANENT – reduction of their same-sex attraction.
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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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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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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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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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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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Would Rob Gagnon and other people make as big a deal about that as they are with this? I don’t think so.
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Through biblical community in their local church, through honesty and transparency, sharing what it is that troubles them, being accountable.
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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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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 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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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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