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.
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.
More Alan Chambers Quotes
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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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I am sorry we promoted sexual orientation change efforts and reparative theories about sexual orientation that stigmatized parents.
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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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That’s good news and the church should offer it wholeheartedly to anyone.
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I’m not saying that people should live in unrepentant sin. I’m not saying that that’s a mark of a mature believer at all.
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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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I think that’s really where we need to be more consistent as believers.
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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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One of the many evils this world has to offer is the sin of homosexuality.
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Satan, the enemy is using people to further his agenda to destroy the Kingdom of God and as many souls as he can.
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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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I can attest to the fact that sexual orientation is not immutable and I urge the city council to vote no on this amendment.
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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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Who need to be discipled and to pursue Christ in their life.
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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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When I said on national television I still struggle.
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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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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.
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They’re a wonderful and balanced group of people and I’m grateful for their support.
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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 am pursuing Christ wholeheartedly 100 percent. I don’t need a theologian or a set of man-made beliefs to guide me in my daily life.
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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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How can we quantify that? How can you even know that that’s what you have experienced? And what if at some point you fall to 85 percent or 70 percent?
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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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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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