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
ALAN CHAMBERSThe point that I’m trying to make is that we as believers can have security in Christ when we are believers.
More Alan Chambers Quotes
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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 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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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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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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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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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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We will all struggle, we will all fall prey to some type of sin, some will fall prey to the same types of sin over and over again.
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I think, again, if someone wants to know what I believe then look at my life.
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That’s good news and the church should offer it wholeheartedly to anyone.
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That, I think, sets people up for unrealistic expectations and is something that I’m not willing to offer when we’re sharing these types of messages or presenting what was presented to me.
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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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I am eternally secure. I gave my heart to Christ and that gift of salvation is irrevocable.
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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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In all caps PERMANENT – reduction of their same-sex attraction.
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And that’s a wonderful thing and that’s what we will always offer at Exodus.
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