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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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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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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The reason we have distanced ourselves from it is because some of the things that they employ and some of the messages that I’ve heard from reparative therapists with regards to what someone can expect once they get through that type of therapy.
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That’s good news and the church should offer it wholeheartedly to anyone.
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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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It’s something that’s been part of my tenure at Exodus over the last decade plus.
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It says in this world you will have trouble in John 16:33 but take heart you can have peace in me because I’ve overcome the world.
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When they don’t have to live in that fear or that life of condemnation wondering whether God’s going to yank His relationship from them
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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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There wasn’t reparative therapy in Corinth. So in this passage I think people came to Christ and experienced a new life in him apart from the therapeutic process.
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They’re a wonderful and balanced group of people and I’m grateful for their support.
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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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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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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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