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.
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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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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When I said on national television I still struggle.
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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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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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Someone’s always calling for my resignation. It’s nothing new.
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And that’s a wonderful thing and that’s what we will always offer at Exodus.
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It’s about pursuing a relationship with Christ.
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That’s good news and the church should offer it wholeheartedly to anyone.
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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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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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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 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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One of the many evils this world has to offer is the sin of homosexuality.
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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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