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.
ALAN CHAMBERSThis 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.
More Alan Chambers Quotes
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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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I am eternally secure. I gave my heart to Christ and that gift of salvation is irrevocable.
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Or any other thing – are those people in danger of losing their salvation over those issues?
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I think it’s hypocritical and inconsistent for us to attack this one group of people over any other group of people that are within our churches today.
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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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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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I think for believers you know we are helping people pursue holiness through a relationship with Christ.
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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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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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How can we quantify that? How can you even know that that’s what you have experienced? And what if at some point you fall to 85 percent or 70 percent?
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Certainly if someone looks at my life, they will see that I have surrendered my heart, my life to Jesus Christ.
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Exodus will do that for people who come to us for help.
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One of the many evils this world has to offer is the sin of homosexuality.
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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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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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