I think that’s really where we need to be more consistent as believers.
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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I know Christ. And that is secure. And I think that is something that actually helps believers pursue his holiness.
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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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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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Through biblical community in their local church, through honesty and transparency, sharing what it is that troubles them, being accountable.
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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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I don’t differentiate between this one sin struggle than any other.
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That’s good news and the church should offer it wholeheartedly to anyone.
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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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What I know about my relationship with Christ is that as a believer.
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And then there are encouragements to use heterosexual pornography or heterosexual images to encourage heterosexual attraction.
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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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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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The ones that are running rampant within our churches largely go unaddressed.
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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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