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.
ALAN CHAMBERSSomeone’s always calling for my resignation. It’s nothing new.
More Alan Chambers Quotes
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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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You know my issue isn’t whether gay people go to heaven or straight people go to heaven.
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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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I believe the gay community is a good group of people but with groups like NAMBLA [a pedophile group] riding on their coattails.
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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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And then there are encouragements to use heterosexual pornography or heterosexual images to encourage heterosexual attraction.
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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 that’s really where we need to be more consistent as believers.
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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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The 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.
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One of the many evils this world has to offer is the sin of homosexuality.
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In all caps PERMANENT – reduction of their same-sex attraction.
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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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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 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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