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.
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.
More Alan Chambers Quotes
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I think that’s really where we need to be more consistent as believers.
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Exodus will do that for people who come to us for help.
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They’re a wonderful and balanced group of people and I’m grateful for their support.
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I’m not saying that people should live in unrepentant sin. I’m not saying that that’s a mark of a mature believer at all.
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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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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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You know my issue isn’t whether gay people go to heaven or straight people go to heaven.
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The 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.
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For other people who are involved in unrepentant sin whether it’s the sin of homosexual sexual expression or gluttony or pride or heterosexual sexual expression outside of a monogamous heterosexual marriage.
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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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Who need to be discipled and to pursue Christ in their life.
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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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The ones that are running rampant within our churches largely go unaddressed.
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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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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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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.
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Someone’s always calling for my resignation. It’s nothing new.
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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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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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We’ve made it bigger; the resolution for this needs to be bigger than for other people.
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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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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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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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So to pick and choose that once you come to Christ you’re never going to struggle in those areas again or never fall prey to stumbling in those ways again, I just, I don’t think we can assure that.
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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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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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