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.
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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It’s about pursuing a relationship with Christ.
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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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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 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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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 know Christ. And that is secure. And I think that is something that actually helps believers pursue his holiness.
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And that’s a wonderful thing and that’s what we will always offer at Exodus.
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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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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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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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Within the membership we have 270 or so members within the network of Exodus whether that’s a local member ministry, a counselor or one of our members of our church association.
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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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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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The ones that are running rampant within our churches largely go unaddressed.
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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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