Now on to reparative therapy, I think counseling is a wonderful tool for anybody regardless of what struggle they bring to the table.
ALAN CHAMBERSIt 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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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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In all caps PERMANENT – reduction of their same-sex attraction.
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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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I think that’s really where we need to be more consistent as believers.
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That’s good news and the church should offer it wholeheartedly to anyone.
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Someone’s always calling for my resignation. It’s nothing new.
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Who need to be discipled and to pursue Christ 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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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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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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I think for believers you know we are helping people pursue holiness through a relationship with Christ.
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How can we quantify that? How can you even know that that’s what you have experienced? And what if at some point you fall to 85 percent or 70 percent?
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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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Through biblical community in their local church, through honesty and transparency, sharing what it is that troubles them, being accountable.
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