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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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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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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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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You know my issue isn’t whether gay people go to heaven or straight people go to heaven.
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But it doesn’t say anywhere in that passage that the people didn’t still struggle with temptation or that they never fell prey to that sin again whether it was the issue of homosexuality or any of the other things that are listed there.
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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.
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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 think for believers you know we are helping people pursue holiness through a relationship with Christ.
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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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Well, I find it interesting first that this all centers around the issue of homosexuality and we don’t bring in any other sin issue into the picture.
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I am eternally secure. I gave my heart to Christ and that gift of salvation is irrevocable.
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When I said on national television I still struggle.
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Who need to be discipled and to pursue Christ in their life.
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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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Issues of pride and judgment and gossip and slander and other types of sexual immorality, gluttony, you name it.
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