I think for believers you know we are helping people pursue holiness through a relationship with Christ.
ALAN CHAMBERSI think for believers you know we are helping people pursue holiness through a relationship with Christ.
ALAN CHAMBERSSo he can add his voice to the chorus of others whether it’s gay activists or now a New Testament professor.
ALAN CHAMBERSI’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.
ALAN CHAMBERSI’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.
ALAN CHAMBERSSo 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 CHAMBERSI’m grateful for people’s opinions but I choose to surrender and to serve Christ and Christ alone and in that my life has changed.
ALAN CHAMBERSI 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.
ALAN CHAMBERSI can attest to the fact that sexual orientation is not immutable and I urge the city council to vote no on this amendment.
ALAN CHAMBERSWhen 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
ALAN CHAMBERSI 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.
ALAN CHAMBERSThe 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.
ALAN CHAMBERSThere wasn’t reparative therapy in Corinth. So in this passage I think people came to Christ and experienced a new life in him apart from the therapeutic process.
ALAN CHAMBERSWhat I know about my relationship with Christ is that as a believer.
ALAN CHAMBERSI think, again, if someone wants to know what I believe then look at my life.
ALAN CHAMBERSA 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.
ALAN CHAMBERSFor other people who are involved in unrepentant sin whether it’s the sin of homosexual sexual expression or gluttony or pride or heterosexual sexual expression outside of a monogamous heterosexual marriage.
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