But we will encourage the church to do that in general for anyone and everyone who’s seeking to be a mature believer in Christ.
ALAN CHAMBERSBut we will encourage the church to do that in general for anyone and everyone who’s seeking to be a mature believer in Christ.
ALAN CHAMBERSHow 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?
ALAN CHAMBERSThrough biblical community in their local church, through honesty and transparency, sharing what it is that troubles them, being accountable.
ALAN CHAMBERSThe ones that are running rampant within our churches largely go unaddressed.
ALAN CHAMBERSI 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 CHAMBERSNow on to reparative therapy, I think counseling is a wonderful tool for anybody regardless of what struggle they bring to the table.
ALAN CHAMBERSIt says in this world you will have trouble in John 16:33 but take heart you can have peace in me because I’ve overcome the world.
ALAN CHAMBERSI think that’s really where we need to be more consistent as believers.
ALAN CHAMBERSBut 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.
ALAN CHAMBERSThe 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 CHAMBERSI think we’ve made it a golden idol. I think we in the church have treated it differently than we’ve treated anything else.
ALAN CHAMBERSOne of the many evils this world has to offer is the sin of homosexuality.
ALAN CHAMBERSIf we were talking about one of their sin issues we wouldn’t have addressed this at all. I find that hypocritical and inconsistent.
ALAN CHAMBERSAnd that’s a wonderful thing and that’s what we will always offer at Exodus.
ALAN CHAMBERSWhen I said on national television I still struggle.
ALAN CHAMBERSWe’ve made it bigger; the resolution for this needs to be bigger than for other people.
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