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.
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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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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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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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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Well, I find it interesting first that this all centers around the issue of homosexuality and we don’t bring in any other sin issue into the picture.
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I don’t differentiate between this one sin struggle than any other.
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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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They’re a wonderful and balanced group of people and I’m grateful for their support.
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I think that’s really where we need to be more consistent as believers.
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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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Issues of pride and judgment and gossip and slander and other types of sexual immorality, gluttony, you name it.
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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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I think we can all use a little bit of counseling on planet earth today. But when it comes to reparative therapy.
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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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It’s about pursuing a relationship with Christ.
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I’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.
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For some that will mean getting the help or expertise of a counselor that can help them walk through and navigate through some of the traumatic things that they’ve been through in their life.
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I think we’ve made it a golden idol. I think we in the church have treated it differently than we’ve treated anything else.
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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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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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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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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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Who need to be discipled and to pursue Christ in their life.
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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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Through biblical community in their local church, through honesty and transparency, sharing what it is that troubles them, being accountable.
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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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But sin resides, the power of sin resides in our flesh. It will always try us and it was always tempt us and therefore we always need to be submitting our mind, will and emotions to the lordship of Jesus Christ.
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