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.
ALAN CHAMBERSMy beliefs and my desires have changed. They have come into alignment with who he is and who he created you to be.
More Alan Chambers Quotes
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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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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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I don’t differentiate between this one sin struggle than any other.
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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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In all caps PERMANENT – reduction of their same-sex attraction.
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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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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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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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If we were talking about one of their sin issues we wouldn’t have addressed this at all. I find that hypocritical and inconsistent.
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This is the church’s job. This is who we are as the body of Christ to reach out to people who are in need, who are struggling.
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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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I think it’s hypocritical and inconsistent for us to attack this one group of people over any other group of people that are within our churches today.
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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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It’s something that’s been part of my tenure at Exodus over the last decade plus.
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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 am sorry we promoted sexual orientation change efforts and reparative theories about sexual orientation that stigmatized parents.
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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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Issues of pride and judgment and gossip and slander and other types of sexual immorality, gluttony, you name it.
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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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Or any other thing – are those people in danger of losing their salvation over those issues?
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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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It’s about pursuing a relationship with Christ.
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One of the many evils this world has to offer is the sin of homosexuality.
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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 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 the gay community is a good group of people but with groups like NAMBLA [a pedophile group] riding on their coattails.
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