I know Christ. And that is secure. And I think that is something that actually helps believers pursue his holiness.
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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I am opposed to special rights for gays just as I am opposed to special rights for heterosexuals or smokers.
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Exodus is a very large organization. My board of directors is supportive of me as the president of Exodus and are very much involved in my decision-making and those types of things.
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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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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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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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But we will encourage the church to do that in general for anyone and everyone who’s seeking to be a mature believer in Christ.
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That’s good news and the church should offer it wholeheartedly to anyone.
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We’ve made it bigger; the resolution for this needs to be bigger than for other people.
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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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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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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 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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That, I think, sets people up for unrealistic expectations and is something that I’m not willing to offer when we’re sharing these types of messages or presenting what was presented to me.
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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 sin resides, the power of sin resides in our flesh. It will always try us and it was always tempt us and therefore we always need to be submitting our mind, will and emotions to the lordship of Jesus Christ.
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