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.
ALAN CHAMBERSAnd then there are encouragements to use heterosexual pornography or heterosexual images to encourage heterosexual attraction.
More Alan Chambers Quotes
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In all caps PERMANENT – reduction of their same-sex attraction.
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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 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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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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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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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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Someone’s always calling for my resignation. It’s nothing new.
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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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A 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.
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I find it a golden idol, honestly, where we have been hypocritical to ask people to resolve this issue in a way that we haven’t encouraged other people with other struggles to resolve.
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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 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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Or any other thing – are those people in danger of losing their salvation over those issues?
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Within the membership we have 270 or so members within the network of Exodus whether that’s a local member ministry, a counselor or one of our members of our church association.
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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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