When they don’t have to live in that fear or that life of condemnation wondering whether God’s going to yank His relationship from them
ALAN CHAMBERSI’m not saying that people should live in unrepentant sin. I’m not saying that that’s a mark of a mature believer at all.
More Alan Chambers Quotes
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Someone’s always calling for my resignation. It’s nothing new.
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I’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.
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Exodus will do that for people who come to us for help.
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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’m not saying that people should live in unrepentant sin. I’m not saying that that’s a mark of a mature believer at all.
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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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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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I am opposed to special rights for gays just as I am opposed to special rights for heterosexuals or smokers.
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It 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.
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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’m looking at offering biblical holiness, not an unrealistic expectation for people that will leave them disappointed.
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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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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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How 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?
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