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.
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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Who need to be discipled and to pursue Christ in their life.
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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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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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I think that’s really where we need to be more consistent as believers.
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Exodus will do that for people who come to us for help.
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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 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’m not saying that people should live in unrepentant sin. I’m not saying that that’s a mark of a mature believer at all.
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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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It’s something that’s been part of my tenure at Exodus over the last decade plus.
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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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I’m grateful for people’s opinions but I choose to surrender and to serve Christ and Christ alone and in that my life has changed.
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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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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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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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I think, again, if someone wants to know what I believe then look at my life.
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And that’s a wonderful thing and that’s what we will always offer at Exodus.
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I am sorry we promoted sexual orientation change efforts and reparative theories about sexual orientation that stigmatized parents.
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I am eternally secure. I gave my heart to Christ and that gift of salvation is irrevocable.
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What I know about my relationship with Christ is that as a believer.
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A reparative therapist called me and said if you’ll come into therapy with me I can cure you of your temptations and attractions 100 percent.
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That’s good news and the church should offer it wholeheartedly to anyone.
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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 think it’s hypocritical and inconsistent for us to attack this one group of people over any other group of people that are within our churches today.
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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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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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