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.
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.
More Alan Chambers Quotes
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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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The point that I’m trying to make is that we as believers can have security in Christ when we are believers.
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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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What I know about my relationship with Christ is that as a believer.
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I am pursuing Christ wholeheartedly 100 percent. I don’t need a theologian or a set of man-made beliefs to guide me in my daily life.
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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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I think for believers you know we are helping people pursue holiness through a relationship with Christ.
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Exodus will do that for people who come to us for help.
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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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I 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.
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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 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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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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I am opposed to special rights for gays just as I am opposed to special rights for heterosexuals or smokers.
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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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Through biblical community in their local church, through honesty and transparency, sharing what it is that troubles them, being accountable.
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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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The ones that are running rampant within our churches largely go unaddressed.
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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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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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Who need to be discipled and to pursue Christ in their life.
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But to say that people who have same-sex attractions are the only group of people who need to go to a therapist to completely resolve those attractions isn’t something I find biblically accurate.
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When 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
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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 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’m looking at offering biblical holiness, not an unrealistic expectation for people that will leave them disappointed.
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