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.
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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We’ve made it bigger; the resolution for this needs to be bigger than for other people.
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One of the many evils this world has to offer is the sin of homosexuality.
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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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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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We will all struggle, we will all fall prey to some type of sin, some will fall prey to the same types of sin over and over again.
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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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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 it’s for me with regards to this issue I believe in justification at the point of salvation.
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Exodus will do that for people who come to us for help.
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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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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 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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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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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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I think that’s really where we need to be more consistent as believers.
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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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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 know Christ. And that is secure. And I think that is something that actually helps believers pursue his holiness.
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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 can attest to the fact that sexual orientation is not immutable and I urge the city council to vote no on this amendment.
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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 find it a golden idol, honestly, where we have been hypocritical to ask people to resolve this issue in a way that we haven’t encouraged other people with other struggles to resolve.
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You know my issue isn’t whether gay people go to heaven or straight people go to heaven.
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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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Through biblical community in their local church, through honesty and transparency, sharing what it is that troubles them, being accountable.
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