Or any other thing – are those people in danger of losing their salvation over those issues?
ALAN CHAMBERSI 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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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 believe in sanctification at the point of salvation. That doesn’t mean that we don’t continue to mature as believers in Christ. But I believe that we are justified and we are sanctified.
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Exodus will do that for people who come to us for help.
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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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I think we have to do a better job than we’ve done. So I do think there is, people rush to judgment and rush to clarify their point on this issue in ways that they don’t’ rush to judgment and to clarity on other 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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What I know about my relationship with Christ is that as a believer.
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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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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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Through biblical community in their local church, through honesty and transparency, sharing what it is that troubles them, being accountable.
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Satan, the enemy is using people to further his agenda to destroy the Kingdom of God and as many souls as he can.
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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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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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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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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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