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.
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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I don’t differentiate between this one sin struggle than any other.
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What I know about my relationship with Christ is that as a believer.
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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 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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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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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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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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I believe the gay community is a good group of people but with groups like NAMBLA [a pedophile group] riding on their coattails.
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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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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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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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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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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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Or any other thing – are those people in danger of losing their salvation over those issues?
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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.
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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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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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Issues of pride and judgment and gossip and slander and other types of sexual immorality, gluttony, you name it.
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For some that will mean getting the help or expertise of a counselor that can help them walk through and navigate through some of the traumatic things that they’ve been through in their life.
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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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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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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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There wasn’t reparative therapy in Corinth. So in this passage I think people came to Christ and experienced a new life in him apart from the therapeutic process.
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That’s good news and the church should offer it wholeheartedly to anyone.
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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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