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.
ALAN CHAMBERSWe 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.
More Alan Chambers Quotes
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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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But when it comes to someone pointing to this passage and saying homosexuals changed, well, I’m not sure that’s what that passage is referring to.
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What I know about my relationship with Christ is that as a believer.
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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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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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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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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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I am eternally secure. I gave my heart to Christ and that gift of salvation is irrevocable.
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In all caps PERMANENT – reduction of their same-sex attraction.
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The ones that are running rampant within our churches largely go unaddressed.
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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.
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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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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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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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