Certainly if someone looks at my life, they will see that I have surrendered my heart, my life to Jesus Christ.
ALAN CHAMBERSAnd that’s a wonderful thing and that’s what we will always offer at Exodus.
More Alan Chambers Quotes
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Within the membership we have 270 or so members within the network of Exodus whether that’s a local member ministry, a counselor or one of our members of our church association.
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For someone to promise a percentage type cure for this issue, for instance I had someone who said they had experienced a 90 percent permanent.
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This is the church’s job. This is who we are as the body of Christ to reach out to people who are in need, who are struggling.
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It’s about pursuing a relationship with Christ.
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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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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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Let me be clear that I’m not God so I can’t tell you who is and isn’t going to heaven.
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What I know about my relationship with Christ is that as a believer.
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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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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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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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Certainly anyone who comes to faith in Christ has a new heart and they have an opportunity for new life and that’s a wonderful thing.
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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 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 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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Exodus will do that for people who come to us for help.
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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 think it’s for me with regards to this issue I believe in justification at the point of salvation.
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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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In all caps PERMANENT – reduction of their same-sex attraction.
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If we were talking about one of their sin issues we wouldn’t have addressed this at all. I find that hypocritical and inconsistent.
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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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t’s really an encouragement of discipleship, it looks like anything else that we’re offering to anyone else, any other person struggling with any other issue in their life.
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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 as believers can be secure in our relationship with Christ. I’m not saying that sin isn’t sin.
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I am sorry we promoted sexual orientation change efforts and reparative theories about sexual orientation that stigmatized parents.
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