And then there are encouragements to use heterosexual pornography or heterosexual images to encourage heterosexual attraction.
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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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 that’s really where we need to be more consistent as believers.
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The reason we have distanced ourselves from it is because some of the things that they employ and some of the messages that I’ve heard from reparative therapists with regards to what someone can expect once they get through that type of therapy.
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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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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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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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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 am opposed to special rights for gays just as I am opposed to special rights for heterosexuals or smokers.
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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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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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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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I’m grateful for people’s opinions but I choose to surrender and to serve Christ and Christ alone and in that my life has changed.
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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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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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How can we quantify that? How can you even know that that’s what you have experienced? And what if at some point you fall to 85 percent or 70 percent?
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Well, I find it interesting first that this all centers around the issue of homosexuality and we don’t bring in any other sin issue into the picture.
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What I know about my relationship with Christ is that as a believer.
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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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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’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.
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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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You know my issue isn’t whether gay people go to heaven or straight people go to heaven.
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I can attest to the fact that sexual orientation is not immutable and I urge the city council to vote no on this amendment.
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When I said on national television I still struggle.
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