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.
ALAN CHAMBERSFor 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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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 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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I am eternally secure. I gave my heart to Christ and that gift of salvation is irrevocable.
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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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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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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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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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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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And that’s a wonderful thing and that’s what we will always offer at Exodus.
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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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That’s good news and the church should offer it wholeheartedly to anyone.
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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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Who need to be discipled and to pursue Christ in their life.
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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 think that’s really where we need to be more consistent as believers.
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My beliefs and my desires have changed. They have come into alignment with who he is and who he created you to be.
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In all caps PERMANENT – reduction of their same-sex attraction.
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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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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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It’s about pursuing a relationship with Christ.
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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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I know Christ. And that is secure. And I think that is something that actually helps believers pursue his holiness.
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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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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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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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The ones that are running rampant within our churches largely go unaddressed.
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