I think, again, if someone wants to know what I believe then look at my life.
ALAN CHAMBERSI think, again, if someone wants to know what I believe then look at my life.
ALAN CHAMBERSFor someone to promise a percentage type cure for this issue, for instance I had someone who said they had experienced a 90 percent permanent.
ALAN CHAMBERSI know Christ. And that is secure. And I think that is something that actually helps believers pursue his holiness.
ALAN CHAMBERSI’m looking at offering biblical holiness, not an unrealistic expectation for people that will leave them disappointed.
ALAN CHAMBERSI think it’s hypocritical and inconsistent for us to attack this one group of people over any other group of people that are within our churches today.
ALAN CHAMBERSIf we were talking about one of their sin issues we wouldn’t have addressed this at all. I find that hypocritical and inconsistent.
ALAN CHAMBERSThis 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.
ALAN CHAMBERSNow on to reparative therapy, I think counseling is a wonderful tool for anybody regardless of what struggle they bring to the table.
ALAN CHAMBERSOr any other thing – are those people in danger of losing their salvation over those issues?
ALAN CHAMBERSYou know my issue isn’t whether gay people go to heaven or straight people go to heaven.
ALAN CHAMBERSI am sorry we promoted sexual orientation change efforts and reparative theories about sexual orientation that stigmatized parents.
ALAN CHAMBERSLet me be clear that I’m not God so I can’t tell you who is and isn’t going to heaven.
ALAN CHAMBERSIt’s something that’s been part of my tenure at Exodus over the last decade plus.
ALAN CHAMBERSA 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.
ALAN CHAMBERSAnd then there are the offers of using homosexual pornography within the therapeutic process to help people understand why they’re struggling.
ALAN CHAMBERSI’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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