t’s really an encouragement of discipleship, it looks like anything else that we’re offering to anyone else, any other person struggling with any other issue in their life.
ALAN CHAMBERSWhat I know about my relationship with Christ is that as a believer.
More Alan Chambers Quotes
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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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I don’t differentiate between this one sin struggle than any other.
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I’ll be very glad to tell them what my faults and my weaknesses are and the areas that I pray about in my life every day.
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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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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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You know my issue isn’t whether gay people go to heaven or straight people go to heaven.
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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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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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Or any other thing – are those people in danger of losing their salvation over those issues?
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What I know about my relationship with Christ is that as a believer.
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It says in this world you will have trouble in John 16:33 but take heart you can have peace in me because I’ve overcome the world.
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And then there are encouragements to use heterosexual pornography or heterosexual images to encourage heterosexual attraction.
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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 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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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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