For 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.
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.
More Alan Chambers Quotes
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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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Through biblical community in their local church, through honesty and transparency, sharing what it is that troubles them, being accountable.
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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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Exodus will do that for people who come to us for help.
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My beliefs and my desires have changed. They have come into alignment with who he is and who he created you to be.
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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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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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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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I think for believers you know we are helping people pursue holiness through a relationship with Christ.
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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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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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I am sorry we promoted sexual orientation change efforts and reparative theories about sexual orientation that stigmatized parents.
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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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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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When I said on national television I still struggle.
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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 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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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’ve made it bigger; the resolution for this needs to be bigger than for other people.
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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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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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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.
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t’s really an encouragement of discipleship, it looks like anything else that we’re offering to anyone else, any other person struggling with any other issue in their life.
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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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I believe the gay community is a good group of people but with groups like NAMBLA [a pedophile group] riding on their coattails.
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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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