Issues of pride and judgment and gossip and slander and other types of sexual immorality, gluttony, you name it.
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.
More Alan Chambers Quotes
-
-
I am eternally secure. I gave my heart to Christ and that gift of salvation is irrevocable.
ALAN CHAMBERS -
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.
ALAN CHAMBERS -
I am sorry we promoted sexual orientation change efforts and reparative theories about sexual orientation that stigmatized parents.
ALAN CHAMBERS -
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.
ALAN CHAMBERS -
I think for believers you know we are helping people pursue holiness through a relationship with Christ.
ALAN CHAMBERS -
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.
ALAN CHAMBERS -
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.
ALAN CHAMBERS -
Exodus is a very large organization. My board of directors is supportive of me as the president of Exodus and are very much involved in my decision-making and those types of things.
ALAN CHAMBERS -
So he can add his voice to the chorus of others whether it’s gay activists or now a New Testament professor.
ALAN CHAMBERS -
I think we as believers can be secure in our relationship with Christ. I’m not saying that sin isn’t sin.
ALAN CHAMBERS -
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.
ALAN CHAMBERS -
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.
ALAN CHAMBERS -
I think it’s for me with regards to this issue I believe in justification at the point of salvation.
ALAN CHAMBERS -
Certainly if someone looks at my life, they will see that I have surrendered my heart, my life to Jesus Christ.
ALAN CHAMBERS -
Certainly anyone who comes to faith in Christ has a new heart and they have an opportunity for new life and that’s a wonderful thing.
ALAN CHAMBERS