That’s good news and the church should offer it wholeheartedly to anyone.
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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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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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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In all caps PERMANENT – reduction of their same-sex attraction.
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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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One of the many evils this world has to offer is the sin of homosexuality.
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Exodus will do that for people who come to us for help.
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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’m looking at offering biblical holiness, not an unrealistic expectation for people that will leave them disappointed.
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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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Who need to be discipled and to pursue Christ in their life.
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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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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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Through biblical community in their local church, through honesty and transparency, sharing what it is that troubles them, being accountable.
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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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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 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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So he can add his voice to the chorus of others whether it’s gay activists or now a New Testament professor.
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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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Satan, the enemy is using people to further his agenda to destroy the Kingdom of God and as many souls as he can.
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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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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 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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Someone’s always calling for my resignation. It’s nothing new.
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I don’t differentiate between this one sin struggle than any other.
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