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.
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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One of the many evils this world has to offer is the sin of homosexuality.
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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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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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Exodus will do that for people who come to us for help.
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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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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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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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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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The point that I’m trying to make is that we as believers can have security in Christ when we are believers.
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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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In all caps PERMANENT – reduction of their same-sex attraction.
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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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And that’s a wonderful thing and that’s what we will always offer at Exodus.
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And then there are encouragements to use heterosexual pornography or heterosexual images to encourage heterosexual attraction.
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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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Who need to be discipled and to pursue Christ in their life.
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When I said on national television I still struggle.
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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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I don’t differentiate between this one sin struggle than any other.
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That’s good news and the church should offer it wholeheartedly to anyone.
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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 am pursuing Christ wholeheartedly 100 percent. I don’t need a theologian or a set of man-made beliefs to guide me in my daily life.
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I think, again, if someone wants to know what I believe then look at my life.
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I am opposed to special rights for gays just as I am opposed to special rights for heterosexuals or smokers.
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Someone’s always calling for my resignation. It’s nothing new.
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Certainly anyone who comes to faith in Christ has a new heart and they have an opportunity for new life and that’s a wonderful thing.
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