I am opposed to special rights for gays just as I am opposed to special rights for heterosexuals or smokers.
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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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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I think for believers you know we are helping people pursue holiness through a relationship with Christ.
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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 know Christ. And that is secure. And I think that is something that actually helps believers pursue his holiness.
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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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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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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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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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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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The ones that are running rampant within our churches largely go unaddressed.
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I’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.
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Exodus will do that for people who come to us for help.
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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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And that’s a wonderful thing and that’s what we will always offer at Exodus.
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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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