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I 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.

Alan Chambers

And then there are the offers of using homosexual pornography within the therapeutic process to help people understand why they’re struggling.
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Exodus will do that for people who come to us for help.
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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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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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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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I think, again, if someone wants to know what I believe then look at my life.
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I’m looking at offering biblical holiness, not an unrealistic expectation for people that will leave them disappointed.
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I don’t differentiate between this one sin struggle than any other.
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I think for believers you know we are helping people pursue holiness through a relationship with Christ.
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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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t’s really an encouragement of discipleship, it looks like anything else that we’re offering to anyone else, any other person struggling with any other issue in their life.
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It’s about pursuing a relationship with Christ.
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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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I 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.
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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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So to pick and choose that once you come to Christ you’re never going to struggle in those areas again or never fall prey to stumbling in those ways again, I just, I don’t think we can assure that.
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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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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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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 think we can all use a little bit of counseling on planet earth today. But when it comes to reparative therapy.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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I think it’s for me with regards to this issue I believe in justification at the point of salvation.
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