What I know about my relationship with Christ is that as a believer.
ALAN CHAMBERSBut 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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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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Who need to be discipled and to pursue Christ in their life.
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I believe the gay community is a good group of people but with groups like NAMBLA [a pedophile group] riding on their coattails.
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And then there are encouragements to use heterosexual pornography or heterosexual images to encourage heterosexual attraction.
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Exodus will do that for people who come to us for help.
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It’s something that’s been part of my tenure at Exodus over the last decade plus.
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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 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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In all caps PERMANENT – reduction of their same-sex attraction.
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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 if someone looks at my life, they will see that I have surrendered my heart, my life to Jesus Christ.
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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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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 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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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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