Now on to reparative therapy, I think counseling is a wonderful tool for anybody regardless of what struggle they bring to the table.
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
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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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Through biblical community in their local church, through honesty and transparency, sharing what it is that troubles them, being accountable.
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And that’s a wonderful thing and that’s what we will always offer at Exodus.
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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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I think that’s really where we need to be more consistent as believers.
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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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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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Issues of pride and judgment and gossip and slander and other types of sexual immorality, gluttony, you name it.
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If we were talking about one of their sin issues we wouldn’t have addressed this at all. I find that hypocritical and inconsistent.
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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 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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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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Or any other thing – are those people in danger of losing their salvation over those issues?
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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 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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