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.
ALAN CHAMBERSWell, 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.
ALAN CHAMBERSI know Christ. And that is secure. And I think that is something that actually helps believers pursue his holiness.
ALAN CHAMBERSI think, again, if someone wants to know what I believe then look at my life.
ALAN CHAMBERSHow can we quantify that? How can you even know that that’s what you have experienced? And what if at some point you fall to 85 percent or 70 percent?
ALAN CHAMBERSAnd then there are the offers of using homosexual pornography within the therapeutic process to help people understand why they’re struggling.
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.
ALAN CHAMBERSNow on to reparative therapy, I think counseling is a wonderful tool for anybody regardless of what struggle they bring to the table.
ALAN CHAMBERSCertainly if someone looks at my life, they will see that I have surrendered my heart, my life to Jesus Christ.
ALAN CHAMBERSFor someone to promise a percentage type cure for this issue, for instance I had someone who said they had experienced a 90 percent permanent.
ALAN CHAMBERSIt’s about pursuing a relationship with Christ.
ALAN CHAMBERSIt says in this world you will have trouble in John 16:33 but take heart you can have peace in me because I’ve overcome the world.
ALAN CHAMBERSBut 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.
ALAN CHAMBERSFor 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.
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 don’t differentiate between this one sin struggle than any other.
ALAN CHAMBERSI think it’s for me with regards to this issue I believe in justification at the point of salvation.
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