So he can add his voice to the chorus of others whether it’s gay activists or now a New Testament professor.
ALAN CHAMBERSI’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.
More Alan Chambers Quotes
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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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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 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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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’m not saying that people should live in unrepentant sin. I’m not saying that that’s a mark of a mature believer at all.
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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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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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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 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 know Christ. And that is secure. And I think that is something that actually helps believers pursue his holiness.
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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 think that’s really where we need to be more consistent as believers.
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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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There wasn’t reparative therapy in Corinth. So in this passage I think people came to Christ and experienced a new life in him apart from the therapeutic process.
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I think, again, if someone wants to know what I believe then look at my life.
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