I know Christ. And that is secure. And I think that is something that actually helps believers pursue his holiness.
ALAN CHAMBERSWhen they don’t have to live in that fear or that life of condemnation wondering whether God’s going to yank His relationship from them
More Alan Chambers Quotes
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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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I think that’s really where we need to be more consistent as believers.
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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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When I said on national television I still struggle.
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Let me be clear that I’m not God so I can’t tell you who is and isn’t going to heaven.
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The ones that are running rampant within our churches largely go unaddressed.
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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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So he can add his voice to the chorus of others whether it’s gay activists or now a New Testament professor.
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I’ll be very glad to tell them what my faults and my weaknesses are and the areas that I pray about in my life every day.
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But 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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We’ve made it bigger; the resolution for this needs to be bigger than for other people.
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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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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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My beliefs and my desires have changed. They have come into alignment with who he is and who he created you to be.
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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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I can attest to the fact that sexual orientation is not immutable and I urge the city council to vote no on this amendment.
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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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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 for believers you know we are helping people pursue holiness through 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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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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I think it’s for me with regards to this issue I believe in justification at the point of salvation.
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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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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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It’s about pursuing a relationship with Christ.
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I believe in sanctification at the point of salvation. That doesn’t mean that we don’t continue to mature as believers in Christ. But I believe that we are justified and we are sanctified.
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