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.
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 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 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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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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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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Satan, the enemy is using people to further his agenda to destroy the Kingdom of God and as many souls as he can.
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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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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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t’s really an encouragement of discipleship, it looks like anything else that we’re offering to anyone else, any other person struggling with any other issue in their life.
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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, again, if someone wants to know what I believe then look at my life.
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For some that will mean getting the help or expertise of a counselor that can help them walk through and navigate through some of the traumatic things that they’ve been through in their life.
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In all caps PERMANENT – reduction of their same-sex attraction.
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But it doesn’t say anywhere in that passage that the people didn’t still struggle with temptation or that they never fell prey to that sin again whether it was the issue of homosexuality or any of the other things that are listed there.
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I’m looking at offering biblical holiness, not an unrealistic expectation for people that will leave them disappointed.
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It’s about pursuing a relationship with Christ.
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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 am opposed to special rights for gays just as I am opposed to special rights for heterosexuals or smokers.
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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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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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Someone’s always calling for my resignation. It’s nothing new.
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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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I think that’s really where we need to be more consistent as believers.
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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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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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