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.
ALAN CHAMBERSThat, 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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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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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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I am sorry we promoted sexual orientation change efforts and reparative theories about sexual orientation that stigmatized parents.
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What I know about my relationship with Christ is that as a believer.
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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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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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I think it’s for me with regards to this issue I believe in justification at the point of salvation.
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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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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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I think for believers you know we are helping people pursue holiness through a relationship with Christ.
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And then there are encouragements to use heterosexual pornography or heterosexual images to encourage heterosexual attraction.
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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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I think, again, if someone wants to know what I believe then look at my life.
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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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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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