We will all struggle, we will all fall prey to some type of sin, some will fall prey to the same types of sin over and over again.
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.
More Alan Chambers Quotes
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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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Exodus will do that for people who come to us for help.
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When I said on national television I still struggle.
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Would Rob Gagnon and other people make as big a deal about that as they are with this? I don’t think so.
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What I know about my relationship with Christ is that as a believer.
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They’re a wonderful and balanced group of people and I’m grateful for their support.
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And then there are encouragements to use heterosexual pornography or heterosexual images to encourage heterosexual attraction.
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When they don’t have to live in that fear or that life of condemnation wondering whether God’s going to yank His relationship from them
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Someone’s always calling for my resignation. It’s nothing new.
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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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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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It 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.
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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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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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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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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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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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I am sorry we promoted sexual orientation change efforts and reparative theories about sexual orientation that stigmatized parents.
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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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Issues of pride and judgment and gossip and slander and other types of sexual immorality, gluttony, you name it.
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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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I think we as believers can be secure in our relationship with Christ. I’m not saying that sin isn’t sin.
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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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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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That’s good news and the church should offer it wholeheartedly to anyone.
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We’ve made it bigger; the resolution for this needs to be bigger than for other people.
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