Now on to reparative therapy, I think counseling is a wonderful tool for anybody regardless of what struggle they bring to the table.
ALAN CHAMBERSSo he can add his voice to the chorus of others whether it’s gay activists or now a New Testament professor.
More Alan Chambers Quotes
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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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I don’t differentiate between this one sin struggle than any other.
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And that’s a wonderful thing and that’s what we will always offer at Exodus.
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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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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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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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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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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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Issues of pride and judgment and gossip and slander and other types of sexual immorality, gluttony, you name it.
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It’s about pursuing a relationship with Christ.
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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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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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That, I think, sets people up for unrealistic expectations and is something that I’m not willing to offer when we’re sharing these types of messages or presenting what was presented to me.
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I think that’s really where we need to be more consistent as believers.
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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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