The ones that are running rampant within our churches largely go unaddressed.
ALAN CHAMBERSI am pursuing Christ wholeheartedly 100 percent. I don’t need a theologian or a set of man-made beliefs to guide me in my daily life.
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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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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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Exodus is a very large organization. My board of directors is supportive of me as the president of Exodus and are very much involved in my decision-making and those types of things.
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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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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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But we will encourage the church to do that in general for anyone and everyone who’s seeking to be a mature believer in Christ.
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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 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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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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I think we can all use a little bit of counseling on planet earth today. But when it comes to reparative therapy.
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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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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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When I said on national television I still struggle.
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That, I think, sets people up for unrealistic expectations and is something that I’m not willing to offer when we’re sharing these types of messages or presenting what was presented to me.
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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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