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 CHAMBERSIssues of pride and judgment and gossip and slander and other types of sexual immorality, gluttony, you name it.
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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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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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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 we as believers can be secure in our relationship with Christ. I’m not saying that sin isn’t sin.
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I am pursuing Christ wholeheartedly 100 percent. I don’t need a theologian or a set of man-made beliefs to guide me in my daily life.
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I’m looking at offering biblical holiness, not an unrealistic expectation for people that will leave them disappointed.
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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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Would Rob Gagnon and other people make as big a deal about that as they are with this? I don’t think so.
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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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That’s good news and the church should offer it wholeheartedly to anyone.
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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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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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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 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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Or any other thing – are those people in danger of losing their salvation over those issues?
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