I am sorry we promoted sexual orientation change efforts and reparative theories about sexual orientation that stigmatized parents.
ALAN CHAMBERSIn all caps PERMANENT – reduction of their same-sex attraction.
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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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How can we quantify that? How can you even know that that’s what you have experienced? And what if at some point you fall to 85 percent or 70 percent?
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We will all struggle, we will all fall prey to some type of sin, some will fall prey to the same types of sin over and over again.
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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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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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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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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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But we will encourage the church to do that in general for anyone and everyone who’s seeking to be a mature believer in Christ.
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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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I think for believers you know we are helping people pursue holiness through a relationship with Christ.
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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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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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I’m looking at offering biblical holiness, not an unrealistic expectation for people that will leave them disappointed.
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Someone’s always calling for my resignation. It’s nothing new.
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In all caps PERMANENT – reduction of their same-sex attraction.
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