Exodus will do that for people who come to us for help.
ALAN CHAMBERSWould Rob Gagnon and other people make as big a deal about that as they are with this? I don’t think so.
More Alan Chambers Quotes
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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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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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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.
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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 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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For some that will mean getting the help or expertise of a counselor that can help them walk through and navigate through some of the traumatic things that they’ve been through in their life.
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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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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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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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For someone to promise a percentage type cure for this issue, for instance I had someone who said they had experienced a 90 percent permanent.
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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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Or any other thing – are those people in danger of losing their salvation over those issues?
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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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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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In all caps PERMANENT – reduction of their same-sex attraction.
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