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.
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.
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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
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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 something that’s been part of my tenure at Exodus over the last decade plus.
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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 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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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 am pursuing Christ wholeheartedly 100 percent. I don’t need a theologian or a set of man-made beliefs to guide me in my daily life.
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For other people who are involved in unrepentant sin whether it’s the sin of homosexual sexual expression or gluttony or pride or heterosexual sexual expression outside of a monogamous heterosexual marriage.
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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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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.
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Or any other thing – are those people in danger of losing their salvation over those issues?
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In all caps PERMANENT – reduction of their same-sex attraction.
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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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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 don’t differentiate between this one sin struggle than any other.
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