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.
ALAN CHAMBERSThere 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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Or any other thing – are those people in danger of losing their salvation over those issues?
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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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But 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.
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Someone’s always calling for my resignation. It’s nothing new.
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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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A reparative therapist called me and said if you’ll come into therapy with me I can cure you of your temptations and attractions 100 percent.
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And then there are the offers of using homosexual pornography within the therapeutic process to help people understand why they’re struggling.
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I am opposed to special rights for gays just as I am opposed to special rights for heterosexuals or smokers.
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What I know about my relationship with Christ is that as a believer.
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One of the many evils this world has to offer is the sin of homosexuality.
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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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They’re a wonderful and balanced group of people and I’m grateful for their support.
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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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How 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?
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In all caps PERMANENT – reduction of their same-sex attraction.
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