And then there are encouragements to use heterosexual pornography or heterosexual images to encourage heterosexual attraction.
ALAN CHAMBERSBut 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.
More Alan Chambers Quotes
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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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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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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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And that’s a wonderful thing and that’s what we will always offer at Exodus.
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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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Through biblical community in their local church, through honesty and transparency, sharing what it is that troubles them, being accountable.
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I think we as believers can be secure in our relationship with Christ. I’m not saying that sin isn’t sin.
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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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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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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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I am opposed to special rights for gays just as I am opposed to special rights for heterosexuals or smokers.
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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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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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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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