I am opposed to special rights for gays just as I am opposed to special rights for heterosexuals or smokers.
ALAN CHAMBERSI find it a golden idol, honestly, where we have been hypocritical to ask people to resolve this issue in a way that we haven’t encouraged other people with other struggles to resolve.
More Alan Chambers Quotes
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It’s about pursuing a relationship with Christ.
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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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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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And then there are encouragements to use heterosexual pornography or heterosexual images to encourage heterosexual attraction.
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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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There wasn’t reparative therapy in Corinth. So in this passage I think people came to Christ and experienced a new life in him apart from the therapeutic process.
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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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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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What I know about my relationship with Christ is that as a believer.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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