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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I think for believers you know we are helping people pursue holiness through a relationship with Christ.
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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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Through biblical community in their local church, through honesty and transparency, sharing what it is that troubles them, being accountable.
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I’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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My beliefs and my desires have changed. They have come into alignment with who he is and who he created you to be.
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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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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.
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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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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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It says in this world you will have trouble in John 16:33 but take heart you can have peace in me because I’ve overcome the world.
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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 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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Exodus will do that for people who come to us for help.
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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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In all caps PERMANENT – reduction of their same-sex attraction.
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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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I don’t differentiate between this one sin struggle than any other.
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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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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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The ones that are running rampant within our churches largely go unaddressed.
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And that’s a wonderful thing and that’s what we will always offer at Exodus.
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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 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 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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I’ll be very glad to tell them what my faults and my weaknesses are and the areas that I pray about in my life every day.
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We’ve made it bigger; the resolution for this needs to be bigger than for other people.
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