I think that’s really where we need to be more consistent as believers.
ALAN CHAMBERSBut 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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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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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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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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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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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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I don’t differentiate between this one sin struggle than any other.
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And then there are encouragements to use heterosexual pornography or heterosexual images to encourage heterosexual attraction.
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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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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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The ones that are running rampant within our churches largely go unaddressed.
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I’m looking at offering biblical holiness, not an unrealistic expectation for people that will leave them disappointed.
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Issues of pride and judgment and gossip and slander and other types of sexual immorality, gluttony, you name it.
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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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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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We’ve made it bigger; the resolution for this needs to be bigger than for other people.
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