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.
ALAN CHAMBERSI think it’s for me with regards to this issue I believe in justification at the point of salvation.
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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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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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It’s about pursuing a relationship with Christ.
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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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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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And then there are encouragements to use heterosexual pornography or heterosexual images to encourage heterosexual attraction.
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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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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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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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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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In all caps PERMANENT – reduction of their same-sex attraction.
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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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The ones that are running rampant within our churches largely go unaddressed.
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They’re a wonderful and balanced group of people and I’m grateful for their support.
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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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Satan, the enemy is using people to further his agenda to destroy the Kingdom of God and as many souls as he can.
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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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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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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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Through biblical community in their local church, through honesty and transparency, sharing what it is that troubles them, being accountable.
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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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Who need to be discipled and to pursue Christ in their life.
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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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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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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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I think it’s for me with regards to this issue I believe in justification at the point of salvation.
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