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.
ALAN CHAMBERSSo 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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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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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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That, I think, sets people up for unrealistic expectations and is something that I’m not willing to offer when we’re sharing these types of messages or presenting what was presented to me.
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It’s about pursuing a relationship with Christ.
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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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Through biblical community in their local church, through honesty and transparency, sharing what it is that troubles them, being accountable.
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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 we have to do a better job than we’ve done. So I do think there is, people rush to judgment and rush to clarify their point on this issue in ways that they don’t’ rush to judgment and to clarity on other issues.
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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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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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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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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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Would Rob Gagnon and other people make as big a deal about that as they are with this? I don’t think so.
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Who need to be discipled and to pursue Christ in their life.
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