I think, again, if someone wants to know what I believe then look at my life.
ALAN CHAMBERSThrough biblical community in their local church, through honesty and transparency, sharing what it is that troubles them, being accountable.
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But it doesn’t say anywhere in that passage that the people didn’t still struggle with temptation or that they never fell prey to that sin again whether it was the issue of homosexuality or any of the other things that are listed there.
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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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When I said on national television I still struggle.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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And then there are encouragements to use heterosexual pornography or heterosexual images to encourage heterosexual attraction.
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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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Issues of pride and judgment and gossip and slander and other types of sexual immorality, gluttony, you name it.
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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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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 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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Someone’s always calling for my resignation. It’s nothing new.
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They’re a wonderful and balanced group of people and I’m grateful for their support.
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I’ll be very glad to tell them what my faults and my weaknesses are and the areas that I pray about in my life every day.
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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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It’s something that’s been part of my tenure at Exodus over the last decade plus.
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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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And that’s a wonderful thing and that’s what we will always offer at Exodus.
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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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You know my issue isn’t whether gay people go to heaven or straight people go to heaven.
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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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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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