I know Christ. And that is secure. And I think that is something that actually helps believers pursue his holiness.
ALAN CHAMBERSAnd that’s a wonderful thing and that’s what we will always offer at Exodus.
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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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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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Issues of pride and judgment and gossip and slander and other types of sexual immorality, gluttony, you name it.
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Or any other thing – are those people in danger of losing their salvation over those issues?
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And then there are the offers of using homosexual pornography within the therapeutic process to help people understand why they’re struggling.
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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’m looking at offering biblical holiness, not an unrealistic expectation for people that will leave them disappointed.
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For some that will mean getting the help or expertise of a counselor that can help them walk through and navigate through some of the traumatic things that they’ve been through in their life.
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For someone to promise a percentage type cure for this issue, for instance I had someone who said they had experienced a 90 percent permanent.
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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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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 ones that are running rampant within our churches largely go unaddressed.
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Someone’s always calling for my resignation. It’s nothing new.
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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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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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