The ones that are running rampant within our churches largely go unaddressed.
ALAN CHAMBERSIt’s about pursuing a relationship with Christ.
More Alan Chambers Quotes
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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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Someone’s always calling for my resignation. It’s nothing new.
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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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I think it’s for me with regards to this issue I believe in justification at the point of salvation.
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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 think that’s really where we need to be more consistent as believers.
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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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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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Who need to be discipled and to pursue Christ in their life.
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Or any other thing – are those people in danger of losing their salvation over those issues?
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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 as believers can be secure in our relationship with Christ. I’m not saying that sin isn’t sin.
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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 am eternally secure. I gave my heart to Christ and that gift of salvation is irrevocable.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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I don’t differentiate between this one sin struggle than any other.
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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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What I know about my relationship with Christ is that as a believer.
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How can we quantify that? How can you even know that that’s what you have experienced? And what if at some point you fall to 85 percent or 70 percent?
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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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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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