I think we as believers can be secure in our relationship with Christ. I’m not saying that sin isn’t sin.
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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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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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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Someone’s always calling for my resignation. It’s nothing new.
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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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They’re a wonderful and balanced group of people and I’m grateful for their support.
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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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Or any other thing – are those people in danger of losing their salvation over those issues?
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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 am sorry we promoted sexual orientation change efforts and reparative theories about sexual orientation that stigmatized parents.
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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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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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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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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 that’s really where we need to be more consistent as believers.
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Through biblical community in their local church, through honesty and transparency, sharing what it is that troubles them, being accountable.
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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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It says in this world you will have trouble in John 16:33 but take heart you can have peace in me because I’ve overcome the world.
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Well, I find it interesting first that this all centers around the issue of homosexuality and we don’t bring in any other sin issue into the picture.
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We will all struggle, we will all fall prey to some type of sin, some will fall prey to the same types of sin over and over again.
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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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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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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.
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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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And then there are encouragements to use heterosexual pornography or heterosexual images to encourage heterosexual attraction.
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A reparative therapist called me and said if you’ll come into therapy with me I can cure you of your temptations and attractions 100 percent.
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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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