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.
ALAN CHAMBERSExodus will do that for people who come to us for help.
More Alan Chambers Quotes
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Issues of pride and judgment and gossip and slander and other types of sexual immorality, gluttony, you name it.
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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.
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This is the church’s job. This is who we are as the body of Christ to reach out to people who are in need, who are struggling.
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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 find it a golden idol, honestly, where we have been hypocritical to ask people to resolve this issue in a way that we haven’t encouraged other people with other struggles to resolve.
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And then there are encouragements to use heterosexual pornography or heterosexual images to encourage heterosexual attraction.
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It’s something that’s been part of my tenure at Exodus over the last decade plus.
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It’s about pursuing a relationship with 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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So he can add his voice to the chorus of others whether it’s gay activists or now a New Testament professor.
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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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I don’t differentiate between this one sin struggle than any other.
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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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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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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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