And that’s a wonderful thing and that’s what we will always offer at Exodus.
ALAN CHAMBERSOr any other thing – are those people in danger of losing their salvation over those issues?
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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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Exodus is a very large organization. My board of directors is supportive of me as the president of Exodus and are very much involved in my decision-making and those types of things.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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I think it’s for me with regards to this issue I believe in justification at the point of salvation.
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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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There wasn’t reparative therapy in Corinth. So in this passage I think people came to Christ and experienced a new life in him apart from the therapeutic process.
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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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The ones that are running rampant within our churches largely go unaddressed.
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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 think we can all use a little bit of counseling on planet earth today. But when it comes to reparative therapy.
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