Would Rob Gagnon and other people make as big a deal about that as they are with this? I don’t think so.
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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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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It’s something that’s been part of my tenure at Exodus over the last decade plus.
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When they don’t have to live in that fear or that life of condemnation wondering whether God’s going to yank His relationship from them
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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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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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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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I think it’s hypocritical and inconsistent for us to attack this one group of people over any other group of people that are within our churches today.
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Or any other thing – are those people in danger of losing their salvation over those issues?
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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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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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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 am opposed to special rights for gays just as I am opposed to special rights for heterosexuals or smokers.
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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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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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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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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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I think it’s for me with regards to this issue I believe in justification at the point of salvation.
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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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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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I think for believers you know we are helping people pursue holiness through a relationship with 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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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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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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I am eternally secure. I gave my heart to Christ and that gift of salvation is irrevocable.
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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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