You know my issue isn’t whether gay people go to heaven or straight people go to heaven.
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?
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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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Issues of pride and judgment and gossip and slander and other types of sexual immorality, gluttony, you name it.
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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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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 am eternally secure. I gave my heart to Christ and that gift of salvation is irrevocable.
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It’s about pursuing a relationship with Christ.
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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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