A reparative therapist called me and said if you’ll come into therapy with me I can cure you of your temptations and attractions 100 percent.
ALAN CHAMBERSWhat I know about my relationship with Christ is that as a believer.
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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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What I know about my relationship with Christ is that as a believer.
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That’s good news and the church should offer it wholeheartedly to anyone.
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I am sorry we promoted sexual orientation change efforts and reparative theories about sexual orientation that stigmatized parents.
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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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We’ve made it bigger; the resolution for this needs to be bigger than for other people.
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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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I think we as believers can be secure in our relationship with Christ. I’m not saying that sin isn’t sin.
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In all caps PERMANENT – reduction of their same-sex attraction.
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They’re a wonderful and balanced group of people and I’m grateful for their support.
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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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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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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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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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Let me be clear that I’m not God so I can’t tell you who is and isn’t going to heaven.
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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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When I said on national television I still struggle.
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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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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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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 think it’s for me with regards to this issue I believe in justification at the point of salvation.
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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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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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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 am opposed to special rights for gays just as I am opposed to special rights for heterosexuals or smokers.
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