Now on to reparative therapy, I think counseling is a wonderful tool for anybody regardless of what struggle they bring to the table.
ALAN CHAMBERSYou know my issue isn’t whether gay people go to heaven or straight people go to heaven.
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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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When I said on national television I still struggle.
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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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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 am opposed to special rights for gays just as I am opposed to special rights for heterosexuals or smokers.
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And then there are encouragements to use heterosexual pornography or heterosexual images to encourage heterosexual attraction.
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I think for believers you know we are helping people pursue holiness through a relationship with Christ.
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The ones that are running rampant within our churches largely go unaddressed.
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Who need to be discipled and to pursue Christ in their life.
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The point that I’m trying to make is that we as believers can have security in Christ when we are believers.
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When they don’t have to live in that fear or that life of condemnation wondering whether God’s going to yank His relationship from them
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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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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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Satan, the enemy is using people to further his agenda to destroy the Kingdom of God and as many souls as he can.
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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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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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I am sorry we promoted sexual orientation change efforts and reparative theories about sexual orientation that stigmatized parents.
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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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What I know about my relationship with Christ is that as a believer.
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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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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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But as a property owner of Orlando, I wouldn’t rent to someone who is gay any more than I would rent to a person who is a practicing witch.
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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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Through biblical community in their local church, through honesty and transparency, sharing what it is that troubles them, being accountable.
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That’s good news and the church should offer it wholeheartedly to anyone.
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