Now on to reparative therapy, I think counseling is a wonderful tool for anybody regardless of what struggle they bring to the table.
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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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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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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When I said on national television I still struggle.
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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.
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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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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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I’m not saying that people should live in unrepentant sin. I’m not saying that that’s a mark of a mature believer at all.
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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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Or any other thing – are those people in danger of losing their salvation over those issues?
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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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You know my issue isn’t whether gay people go to heaven or straight people go to heaven.
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That’s good news and the church should offer it wholeheartedly to anyone.
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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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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 know Christ. And that is secure. And I think that is something that actually helps believers pursue his holiness.
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