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.
ALAN CHAMBERSI’m looking at offering biblical holiness, not an unrealistic expectation for people that will leave them disappointed.
More Alan Chambers Quotes
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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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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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Issues of pride and judgment and gossip and slander and other types of sexual immorality, gluttony, you name it.
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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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One of the many evils this world has to offer is the sin of homosexuality.
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Certainly if someone looks at my life, they will see that I have surrendered my heart, my life to Jesus 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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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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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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When I said on national television I still struggle.
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I think we’ve made it a golden idol. I think we in the church have treated it differently than we’ve treated anything else.
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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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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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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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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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