So to pick and choose that once you come to Christ you’re never going to struggle in those areas again or never fall prey to stumbling in those ways again, I just, I don’t think we can assure that.
ALAN CHAMBERSHow 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?
More Alan Chambers Quotes
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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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Certainly if someone looks at my life, they will see that I have surrendered my heart, my life to Jesus Christ.
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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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That’s good news and the church should offer it wholeheartedly to anyone.
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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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One of the many evils this world has to offer is the sin of homosexuality.
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But it doesn’t say anywhere in that passage that the people didn’t still struggle with temptation or that they never fell prey to that sin again whether it was the issue of homosexuality or any of the other things that are listed there.
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You know my issue isn’t whether gay people go to heaven or straight people go to heaven.
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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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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 am eternally secure. I gave my heart to Christ and that gift of salvation is irrevocable.
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What I know about my relationship with Christ is that as a believer.
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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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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 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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