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.
ALAN CHAMBERSI think, again, if someone wants to know what I believe then look at my life.
More Alan Chambers Quotes
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Who need to be discipled and to pursue Christ in their life.
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I believe in sanctification at the point of salvation. That doesn’t mean that we don’t continue to mature as believers in Christ. But I believe that we are justified and we are sanctified.
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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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When I said on national television I still struggle.
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One of the many evils this world has to offer is the sin of homosexuality.
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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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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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It’s something that’s been part of my tenure at Exodus over the last decade plus.
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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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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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I am eternally secure. I gave my heart to Christ and that gift of salvation is irrevocable.
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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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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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It’s about pursuing a relationship with Christ.
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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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