I know Christ. And that is secure. And I think that is something that actually helps believers pursue his holiness.
ALAN CHAMBERSWhat I know about my relationship with Christ is that as a believer.
More Alan Chambers Quotes
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I believe in sanctification at the point of salvation. That doesn’t mean that we don’t continue to mature as believers in Christ. But I believe that we are justified and we are sanctified.
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My beliefs and my desires have changed. They have come into alignment with who he is and who he created you to be.
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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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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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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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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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It’s about pursuing a relationship with Christ.
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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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Now on to reparative therapy, I think counseling is a wonderful tool for anybody regardless of what struggle they bring to the table.
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That’s good news and the church should offer it wholeheartedly to anyone.
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One of the many evils this world has to offer is the sin of homosexuality.
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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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We’ve made it bigger; the resolution for this needs to be bigger than for other people.
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I think that’s really where we need to be more consistent as believers.
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But to say that people who have same-sex attractions are the only group of people who need to go to a therapist to completely resolve those attractions isn’t something I find biblically accurate.
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