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.
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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I don’t differentiate between this one sin struggle than any other.
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I know Christ. And that is secure. And I think that is something that actually helps believers pursue his holiness.
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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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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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I think that’s really where we need to be more consistent as believers.
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When I said on national television I still struggle.
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That’s good news and the church should offer it wholeheartedly to anyone.
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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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What I know about my relationship with Christ is that as a believer.
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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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And then there are encouragements to use heterosexual pornography or heterosexual images to encourage heterosexual attraction.
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And that’s a wonderful thing and that’s what we will always offer at Exodus.
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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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Through biblical community in their local church, through honesty and transparency, sharing what it is that troubles them, being accountable.
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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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