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.
ALAN CHAMBERSI think for believers you know we are helping people pursue holiness through a relationship with Christ.
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It’s about pursuing a relationship with Christ.
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Exodus will do that for people who come to us for help.
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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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I think for believers you know we are helping people pursue holiness through a relationship with Christ.
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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 think that’s really where we need to be more consistent as believers.
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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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Certainly if someone looks at my life, they will see that I have surrendered my heart, my life to Jesus 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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A reparative therapist called me and said if you’ll come into therapy with me I can cure you of your temptations and attractions 100 percent.
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I think it’s hypocritical and inconsistent for us to attack this one group of people over any other group of people that are within our churches today.
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But sin resides, the power of sin resides in our flesh. It will always try us and it was always tempt us and therefore we always need to be submitting our mind, will and emotions to the lordship of Jesus Christ.
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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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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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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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We’ve made it bigger; the resolution for this needs to be bigger than for other people.
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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 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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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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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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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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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 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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The ones that are running rampant within our churches largely go unaddressed.
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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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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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