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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The ones that are running rampant within our churches largely go unaddressed.
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I don’t differentiate between this one sin struggle than any other.
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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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I think we as believers can be secure in our relationship with Christ. I’m not saying that sin isn’t sin.
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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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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 think it’s for me with regards to this issue I believe in justification at the point of salvation.
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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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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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It 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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Through biblical community in their local church, through honesty and transparency, sharing what it is that troubles them, being accountable.
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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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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 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 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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