Someone’s always calling for my resignation. It’s nothing new.
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.
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I think, again, if someone wants to know what I believe then look at my life.
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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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Or any other thing – are those people in danger of losing their salvation over those issues?
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It’s about pursuing a relationship with Christ.
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When I said on national television I still struggle.
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I’m not saying that people should live in unrepentant sin. I’m not saying that that’s a mark of a mature believer at all.
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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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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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But as a property owner of Orlando, I wouldn’t rent to someone who is gay any more than I would rent to a person who is a practicing witch.
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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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Well, I find it interesting first that this all centers around the issue of homosexuality and we don’t bring in any other sin issue into the picture.
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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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And that’s a wonderful thing and that’s what we will always offer at Exodus.
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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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If we were talking about one of their sin issues we wouldn’t have addressed this at all. I find that hypocritical and inconsistent.
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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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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 can all use a little bit of counseling on planet earth today. But when it comes to reparative therapy.
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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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You know my issue isn’t whether gay people go to heaven or straight people go to heaven.
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In all caps PERMANENT – reduction of their same-sex attraction.
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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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We’ve made it bigger; the resolution for this needs to be bigger than for other people.
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I can attest to the fact that sexual orientation is not immutable and I urge the city council to vote no on this amendment.
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I think we’ve made it a golden idol. I think we in the church have treated it differently than we’ve treated anything else.
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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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