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.
ALAN CHAMBERSCertainly 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.
More Alan Chambers Quotes
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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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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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It’s something that’s been part of my tenure at Exodus over the last decade plus.
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What I know about my relationship with Christ is that as a believer.
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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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You know my issue isn’t whether gay people go to heaven or straight people go to heaven.
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Someone’s always calling for my resignation. It’s nothing new.
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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 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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They’re a wonderful and balanced group of people and I’m grateful for their support.
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But we will encourage the church to do that in general for anyone and everyone who’s seeking to be a mature believer in Christ.
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I’m grateful for people’s opinions but I choose to surrender and to serve Christ and Christ alone and in that my life has changed.
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Or any other thing – are those people in danger of losing their salvation over those issues?
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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 find it a golden idol, honestly, where we have been hypocritical to ask people to resolve this issue in a way that we haven’t encouraged other people with other struggles to resolve.
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