I think it’s for me with regards to this issue I believe in justification at the point of salvation.
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.
More Alan Chambers Quotes
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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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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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I am sorry we promoted sexual orientation change efforts and reparative theories about sexual orientation that stigmatized parents.
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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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Issues of pride and judgment and gossip and slander and other types of sexual immorality, gluttony, you name it.
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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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For other people who are involved in unrepentant sin whether it’s the sin of homosexual sexual expression or gluttony or pride or heterosexual sexual expression outside of a monogamous heterosexual marriage.
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In all caps PERMANENT – reduction of their same-sex attraction.
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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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And that’s a wonderful thing and that’s what we will always offer at Exodus.
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It says in this world you will have trouble in John 16:33 but take heart you can have peace in me because I’ve overcome the world.
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But to say that people who have same-sex attractions are the only group of people who need to go to a therapist to completely resolve those attractions isn’t something I find biblically accurate.
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Or any other thing – are those people in danger of losing their salvation over those issues?
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The ones that are running rampant within our churches largely go unaddressed.
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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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