I think we can all use a little bit of counseling on planet earth today. But when it comes to reparative therapy.
ALAN CHAMBERSI’m grateful for people’s opinions but I choose to surrender and to serve Christ and Christ alone and in that my life has changed.
More Alan Chambers Quotes
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Who need to be discipled and to pursue Christ in their life.
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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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I think for believers you know we are helping people pursue holiness through a relationship with Christ.
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That’s good news and the church should offer it wholeheartedly to anyone.
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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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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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I know Christ. And that is secure. And I think that is something that actually helps believers pursue his holiness.
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Through biblical community in their local church, through honesty and transparency, sharing what it is that troubles them, being accountable.
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I think that’s really where we need to be more consistent as believers.
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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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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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Issues of pride and judgment and gossip and slander and other types of sexual immorality, gluttony, you name it.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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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’ll be very glad to tell them what my faults and my weaknesses are and the areas that I pray about in my life every day.
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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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I think, again, if someone wants to know what I believe then look at my life.
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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.
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In all caps PERMANENT – reduction of their same-sex attraction.
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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 can attest to the fact that sexual orientation is not immutable and I urge the city council to vote no on this amendment.
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I am eternally secure. I gave my heart to Christ and that gift of salvation is irrevocable.
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