We’ve made it bigger; the resolution for this needs to be bigger than for other people.
ALAN CHAMBERSLet me be clear that I’m not God so I can’t tell you who is and isn’t going to heaven.
More Alan Chambers Quotes
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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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But as a property owner of Orlando, I wouldn’t rent to someone who is gay any more than I would rent to a person who is a practicing witch.
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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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You know my issue isn’t whether gay people go to heaven or straight people go to heaven.
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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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I think it’s for me with regards to this issue I believe in justification at the point of salvation.
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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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What I know about my relationship with Christ is that as a believer.
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Would Rob Gagnon and other people make as big a deal about that as they are with this? I don’t think so.
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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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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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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 find it a golden idol, honestly, where we have been hypocritical to ask people to resolve this issue in a way that we haven’t encouraged other people with other struggles to resolve.
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Someone’s always calling for my resignation. It’s nothing new.
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And then there are encouragements to use heterosexual pornography or heterosexual images to encourage heterosexual attraction.
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