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.
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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Exodus will do that for people who come to us for help.
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For other people who are involved in unrepentant sin whether it’s the sin of homosexual sexual expression or gluttony or pride or heterosexual sexual expression outside of a monogamous heterosexual marriage.
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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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I don’t differentiate between this one sin struggle than any other.
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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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I know Christ. And that is secure. And I think that is something that actually helps believers pursue his holiness.
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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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And then there are the offers of using homosexual pornography within the therapeutic process to help people understand why they’re struggling.
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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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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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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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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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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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Someone’s always calling for my resignation. It’s nothing new.
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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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