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.
ALAN CHAMBERSAnd then there are encouragements to use heterosexual pornography or heterosexual images to encourage heterosexual attraction.
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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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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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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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Certainly if someone looks at my life, they will see that I have surrendered my heart, my life to Jesus Christ.
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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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We will all struggle, we will all fall prey to some type of sin, some will fall prey to the same types of sin over and over again.
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When I said on national television I still struggle.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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It’s something that’s been part of my tenure at Exodus over the last decade plus.
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That’s good news and the church should offer it wholeheartedly to anyone.
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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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