I am opposed to special rights for gays just as I am opposed to special rights for heterosexuals or smokers.
ALAN CHAMBERSNow on to reparative therapy, I think counseling is a wonderful tool for anybody regardless of what struggle they bring to the table.
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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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Someone’s always calling for my resignation. It’s nothing new.
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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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I think, again, if someone wants to know what I believe then look at my life.
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The point that I’m trying to make is that we as believers can have security in Christ when we are believers.
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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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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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One of the many evils this world has to offer is the sin of homosexuality.
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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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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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I’m looking at offering biblical holiness, not an unrealistic expectation for people that will leave them disappointed.
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I’m not saying that people should live in unrepentant sin. I’m not saying that that’s a mark of a mature believer at all.
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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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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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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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