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.
ALAN CHAMBERSI think that’s really where we need to be more consistent as believers.
More Alan Chambers Quotes
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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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t’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.
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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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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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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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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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Through biblical community in their local church, through honesty and transparency, sharing what it is that troubles them, being accountable.
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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’ve made it bigger; the resolution for this needs to be bigger than for other people.
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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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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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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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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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I am eternally secure. I gave my heart to Christ and that gift of salvation is irrevocable.
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