Certainly if someone looks at my life, they will see that I have surrendered my heart, my life to Jesus Christ.
ALAN CHAMBERSI 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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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 think for believers you know we are helping people pursue holiness through a relationship with Christ.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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You know my issue isn’t whether gay people go to heaven or straight people go to heaven.
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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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Now 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 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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I think, again, if someone wants to know what I believe then look at my life.
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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 know Christ. And that is secure. And I think that is something that actually helps believers pursue his holiness.
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