I think we can all use a little bit of counseling on planet earth today. But when it comes to reparative therapy.
ALAN CHAMBERSFor other people who are involved in unrepentant sin whether it’s the sin of homosexual sexual expression or gluttony or pride or heterosexual sexual expression outside of a monogamous heterosexual marriage.
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Or any other thing – are those people in danger of losing their salvation over those issues?
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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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I am sorry we promoted sexual orientation change efforts and reparative theories about sexual orientation that stigmatized parents.
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I am opposed to special rights for gays just as I am opposed to special rights for heterosexuals or smokers.
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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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I don’t differentiate between this one sin struggle than any other.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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