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 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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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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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 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 that’s really where we need to be more consistent as believers.
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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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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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In all caps PERMANENT – reduction of their same-sex attraction.
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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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The ones that are running rampant within our churches largely go unaddressed.
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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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Or any other thing – are those people in danger of losing their salvation over those issues?
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Well, I find it interesting first that this all centers around the issue of homosexuality and we don’t bring in any other sin issue into the picture.
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I think we’ve made it a golden idol. I think we in the church have treated it differently than we’ve treated anything else.
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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 it’s for me with regards to this issue I believe in justification at the point of salvation.
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