Certainly anyone who comes to faith in Christ has a new heart and they have an opportunity for new life and that’s a wonderful thing.
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.
More Alan Chambers Quotes
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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 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 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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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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Issues of pride and judgment and gossip and slander and other types of sexual immorality, gluttony, you name it.
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They’re a wonderful and balanced group of people and I’m grateful for their support.
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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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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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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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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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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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We’ve made it bigger; the resolution for this needs to be bigger than for other people.
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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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And that’s a wonderful thing and that’s what we will always offer at Exodus.
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I think we have to do a better job than we’ve done. So I do think there is, people rush to judgment and rush to clarify their point on this issue in ways that they don’t’ rush to judgment and to clarity on other issues.
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Or any other thing – are those people in danger of losing their salvation over those issues?
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Within the membership we have 270 or so members within the network of Exodus whether that’s a local member ministry, a counselor or one of our members of our church association.
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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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I think it’s for me with regards to this issue I believe in justification at the point of salvation.
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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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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’m looking at offering biblical holiness, not an unrealistic expectation for people that will leave them disappointed.
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When I said on national television I still struggle.
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I think we’ve made it a golden idol. I think we in the church have treated it differently than we’ve treated anything else.
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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 think that’s really where we need to be more consistent as believers.
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