Exodus will do that for people who come to us for help.
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 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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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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So he can add his voice to the chorus of others whether it’s gay activists or now a New Testament professor.
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Someone’s always calling for my resignation. It’s nothing new.
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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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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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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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I know Christ. And that is secure. And I think that is something that actually helps believers pursue his holiness.
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Now on to reparative therapy, I think counseling is a wonderful tool for anybody regardless of what struggle they bring to the table.
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We will all struggle, we will all fall prey to some type of sin, some will fall prey to the same types of sin over and over again.
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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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I think for believers you know we are helping people pursue holiness through a relationship with Christ.
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Through biblical community in their local church, through honesty and transparency, sharing what it is that troubles them, being accountable.
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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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I think that’s really where we need to be more consistent as believers.
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Satan, the enemy is using people to further his agenda to destroy the Kingdom of God and as many souls as he can.
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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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Who need to be discipled and to pursue Christ in their life.
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But when it comes to someone pointing to this passage and saying homosexuals changed, well, I’m not sure that’s what that passage is referring to.
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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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My beliefs and my desires have changed. They have come into alignment with who he is and who he created you to be.
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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 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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I am eternally secure. I gave my heart to Christ and that gift of salvation is irrevocable.
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Certainly anyone who comes to faith in Christ has a new heart and they have an opportunity for new life and that’s a wonderful thing.
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But as a property owner of Orlando, I wouldn’t rent to someone who is gay any more than I would rent to a person who is a practicing witch.
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