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.
ALAN CHAMBERSWe’ve made it bigger; the resolution for this needs to be bigger than for other people.
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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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In all caps PERMANENT – reduction of their same-sex attraction.
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I know Christ. And that is secure. And I think that is something that actually helps believers pursue his holiness.
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I don’t differentiate between this one sin struggle than any other.
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Or any other thing – are those people in danger of losing their salvation over those 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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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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And then there are encouragements to use heterosexual pornography or heterosexual images to encourage heterosexual attraction.
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I think, again, if someone wants to know what I believe then look at my life.
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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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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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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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I am sorry we promoted sexual orientation change efforts and reparative theories about sexual orientation that stigmatized parents.
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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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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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