I’m looking at offering biblical holiness, not an unrealistic expectation for people that will leave them disappointed.
ALAN CHAMBERSI know Christ. And that is secure. And I think that is something that actually helps believers pursue his holiness.
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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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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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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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When I said on national television I still struggle.
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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 if someone looks at my life, they will see that I have surrendered my heart, my life to Jesus Christ.
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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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What I know about my relationship with Christ is that as a believer.
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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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So he can add his voice to the chorus of others whether it’s gay activists or now a New Testament professor.
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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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I am sorry we promoted sexual orientation change efforts and reparative theories about sexual orientation that stigmatized parents.
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I think, again, if someone wants to know what I believe then look at my life.
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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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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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It’s about pursuing a relationship with Christ.
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Or any other thing – are those people in danger of losing their salvation over those issues?
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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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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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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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Exodus is a very large organization. My board of directors is supportive of me as the president of Exodus and are very much involved in my decision-making and those types of things.
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We’ve made it bigger; the resolution for this needs to be bigger than for other people.
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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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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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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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