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.
ALAN CHAMBERSt’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.
More Alan Chambers Quotes
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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 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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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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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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I think for believers you know we are helping people pursue holiness through a relationship with Christ.
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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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I think it’s for me with regards to this issue I believe in justification at the point of salvation.
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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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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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I am eternally secure. I gave my heart to Christ and that gift of salvation is irrevocable.
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Exodus is a very large organization. My board of directors is supportive of me as the president of Exodus and are very much involved in my decision-making and those types of things.
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I’m looking at offering biblical holiness, not an unrealistic expectation for people that will leave them disappointed.
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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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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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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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