Or any other thing – are those people in danger of losing their salvation over those issues?
ALAN CHAMBERSI 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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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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The reason we have distanced ourselves from it is because some of the things that they employ and some of the messages that I’ve heard from reparative therapists with regards to what someone can expect once they get through that type of therapy.
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I think that’s really where we need to be more consistent as believers.
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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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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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I think we’ve made it a golden idol. I think we in the church have treated it differently than we’ve treated anything else.
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Exodus will do that for people who come to us for help.
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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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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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And then there are encouragements to use heterosexual pornography or heterosexual images to encourage heterosexual attraction.
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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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But as a property owner of Orlando, I wouldn’t rent to someone who is gay any more than I would rent to a person who is a practicing witch.
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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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I think, again, if someone wants to know what I believe then look at my life.
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I don’t differentiate between this one sin struggle than any other.
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