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.
ALAN CHAMBERSIt’s something that’s been part of my tenure at Exodus over the last decade plus.
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The reason we have distanced ourselves from it is because some of the things that they employ and some of the messages that I’ve heard from reparative therapists with regards to what someone can expect once they get through that type of therapy.
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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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When I said on national television I still struggle.
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They’re a wonderful and balanced group of people and I’m grateful for their support.
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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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I know Christ. And that is secure. And I think that is something that actually helps believers pursue his holiness.
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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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I believe the gay community is a good group of people but with groups like NAMBLA [a pedophile group] riding on their coattails.
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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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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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I don’t differentiate between this one sin struggle than any other.
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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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And that’s a wonderful thing and that’s what we will always offer at Exodus.
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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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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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