Someone’s always calling for my resignation. It’s nothing new.
ALAN CHAMBERSIf we were talking about one of their sin issues we wouldn’t have addressed this at all. I find that hypocritical and inconsistent.
More Alan Chambers Quotes
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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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We’ve made it bigger; the resolution for this needs to be bigger than for other people.
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And then there are encouragements to use heterosexual pornography or heterosexual images to encourage heterosexual attraction.
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That’s good news and the church should offer it wholeheartedly to anyone.
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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 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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So to pick and choose that once you come to Christ you’re never going to struggle in those areas again or never fall prey to stumbling in those ways again, I just, I don’t think we can assure that.
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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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One of the many evils this world has to offer is the sin of homosexuality.
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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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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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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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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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They’re a wonderful and balanced group of people and I’m grateful for their support.
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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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I think, again, if someone wants to know what I believe then look at my life.
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It’s about pursuing a relationship with Christ.
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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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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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In all caps PERMANENT – reduction of their same-sex attraction.
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I think for believers you know we are helping people pursue holiness through a relationship with Christ.
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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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I don’t differentiate between this one sin struggle than any other.
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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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Satan, the enemy is using people to further his agenda to destroy the Kingdom of God and as many souls as he can.
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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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