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.
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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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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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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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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Issues of pride and judgment and gossip and slander and other types of sexual immorality, gluttony, you name it.
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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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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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We’ve made it bigger; the resolution for this needs to be bigger than for other people.
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And then there are the offers of using homosexual pornography within the therapeutic process to help people understand why they’re struggling.
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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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It’s about pursuing a relationship with Christ.
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And then there are encouragements to use heterosexual pornography or heterosexual images to encourage heterosexual attraction.
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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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Exodus will do that for people who come to us for help.
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They’re a wonderful and balanced group of people and I’m grateful for their support.
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Certainly anyone who comes to faith in Christ has a new heart and they have an opportunity for new life and that’s a wonderful thing.
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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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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 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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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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I know Christ. And that is secure. And I think that is something that actually helps believers pursue his holiness.
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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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I think we have to do a better job than we’ve done. So I do think there is, people rush to judgment and rush to clarify their point on this issue in ways that they don’t’ rush to judgment and to clarity on other issues.
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I don’t differentiate between this one sin struggle than any other.
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It’s something that’s been part of my tenure at Exodus over the last decade plus.
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When I said on national television I still struggle.
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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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