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.
ALAN CHAMBERSYou know my issue isn’t whether gay people go to heaven or straight people go to heaven.
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One of the many evils this world has to offer is the sin of homosexuality.
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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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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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Someone’s always calling for my resignation. It’s nothing new.
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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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I think it’s hypocritical and inconsistent for us to attack this one group of people over any other group of people that are within our churches today.
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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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I think, again, if someone wants to know what I believe then look at my life.
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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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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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Issues of pride and judgment and gossip and slander and other types of sexual immorality, gluttony, you name it.
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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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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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I am eternally secure. I gave my heart to Christ and that gift of salvation is irrevocable.
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