Satan, the enemy is using people to further his agenda to destroy the Kingdom of God and as many souls as he can.
ALAN CHAMBERSThrough biblical community in their local church, through honesty and transparency, sharing what it is that troubles them, being accountable.
More Alan Chambers Quotes
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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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We’ve made it bigger; the resolution for this needs to be bigger than for other people.
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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 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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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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This is the church’s job. This is who we are as the body of Christ to reach out to people who are in need, who are struggling.
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The ones that are running rampant within our churches largely go unaddressed.
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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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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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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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Issues of pride and judgment and gossip and slander and other types of sexual immorality, gluttony, you name it.
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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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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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I 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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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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Exodus will do that for people who come to us for help.
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That’s good news and the church should offer it wholeheartedly to anyone.
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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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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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And then there are encouragements to use heterosexual pornography or heterosexual images to encourage heterosexual attraction.
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I don’t differentiate between this one sin struggle than any other.
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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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I think it’s for me with regards to this issue I believe in justification at the point of salvation.
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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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Or any other thing – are those people in danger of losing their salvation over those issues?
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