I think we as believers can be secure in our relationship with Christ. I’m not saying that sin isn’t sin.
ALAN CHAMBERSI think that’s really where we need to be more consistent as believers.
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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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The reason we have distanced ourselves from it is because some of the things that they employ and some of the messages that I’ve heard from reparative therapists with regards to what someone can expect once they get through that type of therapy.
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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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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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We’ve made it bigger; the resolution for this needs to be bigger than for other people.
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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.
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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 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 sorry we promoted sexual orientation change efforts and reparative theories about sexual orientation that stigmatized parents.
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Someone’s always calling for my resignation. It’s nothing new.
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Would Rob Gagnon and other people make as big a deal about that as they are with this? I don’t think so.
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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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I am eternally secure. I gave my heart to Christ and that gift of salvation is irrevocable.
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I’ll be very glad to tell them what my faults and my weaknesses are and the areas that I pray about in my life every day.
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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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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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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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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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Exodus will do that for people who come to us for help.
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And then there are encouragements to use heterosexual pornography or heterosexual images to encourage heterosexual attraction.
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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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You know my issue isn’t whether gay people go to heaven or straight people go to heaven.
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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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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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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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