Let me be clear that I’m not God so I can’t tell you who is and isn’t going to heaven.
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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Who need to be discipled and to pursue Christ in their life.
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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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For some that will mean getting the help or expertise of a counselor that can help them walk through and navigate through some of the traumatic things that they’ve been through in their life.
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I think it’s for me with regards to this issue I believe in justification at the point of salvation.
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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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There wasn’t reparative therapy in Corinth. So in this passage I think people came to Christ and experienced a new life in him apart from the therapeutic process.
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Someone’s always calling for my resignation. It’s nothing new.
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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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Or any other thing – are those people in danger of losing their salvation over those issues?
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I’m looking at offering biblical holiness, not an unrealistic expectation for people that will leave them disappointed.
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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’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 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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What I know about my relationship with Christ is that as a believer.
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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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It’s about pursuing a relationship with Christ.
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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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Exodus will do that for people who come to us for help.
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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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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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For other people who are involved in unrepentant sin whether it’s the sin of homosexual sexual expression or gluttony or pride or heterosexual sexual expression outside of a monogamous heterosexual marriage.
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The ones that are running rampant within our churches largely go unaddressed.
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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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They’re a wonderful and balanced group of people and I’m grateful for their support.
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When I said on national television I still struggle.
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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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