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.
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.
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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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I think that’s really where we need to be more consistent as believers.
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The ones that are running rampant within our churches largely go unaddressed.
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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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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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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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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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Issues of pride and judgment and gossip and slander and other types of sexual immorality, gluttony, you name it.
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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 I said on national television I still struggle.
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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 am pursuing Christ wholeheartedly 100 percent. I don’t need a theologian or a set of man-made beliefs to guide me in my daily life.
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Or any other thing – are those people in danger of losing their salvation over those issues?
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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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And then there are encouragements to use heterosexual pornography or heterosexual images to encourage heterosexual attraction.
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You know my issue isn’t whether gay people go to heaven or straight people go to heaven.
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Now on to reparative therapy, I think counseling is a wonderful tool for anybody regardless of what struggle they bring to the table.
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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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I can attest to the fact that sexual orientation is not immutable and I urge the city council to vote no on this amendment.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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I think, again, if someone wants to know what I believe then look at my life.
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