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.
ALAN CHAMBERSThe ones that are running rampant within our churches largely go unaddressed.
More Alan Chambers Quotes
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Someone’s always calling for my resignation. It’s nothing new.
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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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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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One of the many evils this world has to offer is the sin of homosexuality.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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I’m looking at offering biblical holiness, not an unrealistic expectation for people that will leave them disappointed.
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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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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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Issues of pride and judgment and gossip and slander and other types of sexual immorality, gluttony, you name it.
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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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