You know my issue isn’t whether gay people go to heaven or straight people go to heaven.
ALAN CHAMBERSI 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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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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That’s good news and the church should offer it wholeheartedly to anyone.
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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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I think we have to do a better job than we’ve done. So I do think there is, people rush to judgment and rush to clarify their point on this issue in ways that they don’t’ rush to judgment and to clarity on other issues.
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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’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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Who need to be discipled and to pursue Christ in their life.
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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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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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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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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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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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One of the many evils this world has to offer is the sin of homosexuality.
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Or any other thing – are those people in danger of losing their salvation over those issues?
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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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