Satan, the enemy is using people to further his agenda to destroy the Kingdom of God and as many souls as he can.
ALAN CHAMBERSThe ones that are running rampant within our churches largely go unaddressed.
More Alan Chambers Quotes
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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 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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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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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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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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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 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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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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That, I think, sets people up for unrealistic expectations and is something that I’m not willing to offer when we’re sharing these types of messages or presenting what was presented to me.
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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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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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And that’s a wonderful thing and that’s what we will always offer at Exodus.
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But it doesn’t say anywhere in that passage that the people didn’t still struggle with temptation or that they never fell prey to that sin again whether it was the issue of homosexuality or any of the other things that are listed there.
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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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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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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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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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Certainly if someone looks at my life, they will see that I have surrendered my heart, my life to Jesus Christ.
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In all caps PERMANENT – reduction of their same-sex attraction.
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I think for believers you know we are helping people pursue holiness through a relationship with Christ.
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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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That’s good news and the church should offer it wholeheartedly to anyone.
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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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Within the membership we have 270 or so members within the network of Exodus whether that’s a local member ministry, a counselor or one of our members of our church association.
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Who need to be discipled and to pursue Christ in their life.
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Or any other thing – are those people in danger of losing their salvation over those issues?
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