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.
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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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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If we were talking about one of their sin issues we wouldn’t have addressed this at all. I find that hypocritical and inconsistent.
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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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It’s something that’s been part of my tenure at Exodus over the last decade plus.
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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 it’s for me with regards to this issue I believe in justification at the point of salvation.
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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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I know Christ. And that is secure. And I think that is something that actually helps believers pursue his holiness.
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The ones that are running rampant within our churches largely go unaddressed.
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Exodus will do that for people who come to us for help.
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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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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 that’s really where we need to be more consistent as believers.
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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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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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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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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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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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I think, again, if someone wants to know what I believe then look at my life.
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And then there are encouragements to use heterosexual pornography or heterosexual images to encourage heterosexual attraction.
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It’s about pursuing a relationship with Christ.
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Who need to be discipled and to pursue Christ in their life.
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I think it’s hypocritical and inconsistent for us to attack this one group of people over any other group of people that are within our churches today.
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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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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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