If we were talking about one of their sin issues we wouldn’t have addressed this at all. I find that hypocritical and inconsistent.
ALAN CHAMBERSBut 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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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 think for believers you know we are helping people pursue holiness through a relationship with Christ.
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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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That’s good news and the church should offer it wholeheartedly to anyone.
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Who need to be discipled and to pursue Christ in their life.
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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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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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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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I think it’s for me with regards to this issue I believe in justification at the point of salvation.
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They’re a wonderful and balanced group of people and I’m grateful for their support.
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That, I think, sets people up for unrealistic expectations and is something that I’m not willing to offer when we’re sharing these types of messages or presenting what was presented to me.
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I think we have to do a better job than we’ve done. So I do think there is, people rush to judgment and rush to clarify their point on this issue in ways that they don’t’ rush to judgment and to clarity on other issues.
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For someone to promise a percentage type cure for this issue, for instance I had someone who said they had experienced a 90 percent permanent.
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This is the church’s job. This is who we are as the body of Christ to reach out to people who are in need, who are struggling.
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