Someone’s always calling for my resignation. It’s nothing new.
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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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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One of the many evils this world has to offer is the sin of homosexuality.
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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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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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The ones that are running rampant within our churches largely go unaddressed.
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That’s good news and the church should offer it wholeheartedly to anyone.
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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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What I know about my relationship with Christ is that as a believer.
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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 opposed to special rights for gays just as I am opposed to special rights for heterosexuals or smokers.
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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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They’re a wonderful and balanced group of people and I’m grateful for their support.
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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’m grateful for people’s opinions but I choose to surrender and to serve Christ and Christ alone and in that my life has changed.
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Exodus will do that for people who come to us for help.
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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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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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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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I think that’s really where we need to be more consistent as believers.
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Exodus is a very large organization. My board of directors is supportive of me as the president of Exodus and are very much involved in my decision-making and those types of things.
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Through biblical community in their local church, through honesty and transparency, sharing what it is that troubles them, being accountable.
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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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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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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 it’s for me with regards to this issue I believe in justification at the point of salvation.
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