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.
ALAN CHAMBERSFor 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.
More Alan Chambers Quotes
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Who need to be discipled and to pursue Christ in their life.
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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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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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Or any other thing – are those people in danger of losing their salvation over those issues?
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Exodus will do that for people who come to us for help.
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I don’t differentiate between this one sin struggle than any other.
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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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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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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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One of the many evils this world has to offer is the sin of homosexuality.
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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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And then there are encouragements to use heterosexual pornography or heterosexual images to encourage heterosexual attraction.
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That’s good news and the church should offer it wholeheartedly to anyone.
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I believe in sanctification at the point of salvation. That doesn’t mean that we don’t continue to mature as believers in Christ. But I believe that we are justified and we are sanctified.
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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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