Now on to reparative therapy, I think counseling is a wonderful tool for anybody regardless of what struggle they bring to the table.
ALAN CHAMBERSAnd 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 know Christ. And that is secure. And I think that is something that actually helps believers pursue his holiness.
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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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I think, again, if someone wants to know what I believe then look at my life.
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Exodus will do that for people who come to us for help.
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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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It’s about pursuing a relationship with Christ.
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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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In all caps PERMANENT – reduction of their same-sex attraction.
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And that’s a wonderful thing and that’s what we will always offer at Exodus.
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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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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 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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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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Issues of pride and judgment and gossip and slander and other types of sexual immorality, gluttony, you name it.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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