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.
ALAN CHAMBERSI 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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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 don’t differentiate between this one sin struggle than any other.
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Within the membership we have 270 or so members within the network of Exodus whether that’s a local member ministry, a counselor or one of our members of our church association.
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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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In all caps PERMANENT – reduction of their same-sex attraction.
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Exodus will do that for people who come to us for help.
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One of the many evils this world has to offer is the sin of homosexuality.
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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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You know my issue isn’t whether gay people go to heaven or straight people go to heaven.
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The ones that are running rampant within our churches largely go unaddressed.
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But sin resides, the power of sin resides in our flesh. It will always try us and it was always tempt us and therefore we always need to be submitting our mind, will and emotions to the lordship of Jesus Christ.
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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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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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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.
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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.
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