I think we’ve made it a golden idol. I think we in the church have treated it differently than we’ve treated anything else.
ALAN CHAMBERSCertainly 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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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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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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The ones that are running rampant within our churches largely go unaddressed.
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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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Issues of pride and judgment and gossip and slander and other types of sexual immorality, gluttony, you name it.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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We’ve made it bigger; the resolution for this needs to be bigger than for other people.
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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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