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.
ALAN CHAMBERSWithin 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.
More Alan Chambers Quotes
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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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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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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 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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I’m looking at offering biblical holiness, not an unrealistic expectation for people that will leave them disappointed.
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Exodus is a very large organization. My board of directors is supportive of me as the president of Exodus and are very much involved in my decision-making and those types of things.
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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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Issues of pride and judgment and gossip and slander and other types of sexual immorality, gluttony, you name it.
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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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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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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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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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When I said on national television I still struggle.
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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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They’re a wonderful and balanced group of people and I’m grateful for their support.
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