It says in this world you will have trouble in John 16:33 but take heart you can have peace in me because I’ve overcome the world.
ALAN CHAMBERSAnd that’s a wonderful thing and that’s what we will always offer at Exodus.
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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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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.
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In all caps PERMANENT – reduction of their same-sex attraction.
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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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And then there are encouragements to use heterosexual pornography or heterosexual images to encourage heterosexual attraction.
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Or any other thing – are those people in danger of losing their salvation over those issues?
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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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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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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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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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You know my issue isn’t whether gay people go to heaven or straight people go to heaven.
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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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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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I am eternally secure. I gave my heart to Christ and that gift of salvation is irrevocable.
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Someone’s always calling for my resignation. It’s nothing new.
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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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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 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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It’s about pursuing a relationship with Christ.
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I believe in sanctification at the point of salvation. That doesn’t mean that we don’t continue to mature as believers in Christ. But I believe that we are justified and we are sanctified.
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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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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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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, again, if someone wants to know what I believe then look at my life.
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I think we have to do a better job than we’ve done. So I do think there is, people rush to judgment and rush to clarify their point on this issue in ways that they don’t’ rush to judgment and to clarity on other issues.
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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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