But we will encourage the church to do that in general for anyone and everyone who’s seeking to be a mature believer in Christ.
ALAN CHAMBERSWell, 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.
More Alan Chambers Quotes
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Someone’s always calling for my resignation. It’s nothing new.
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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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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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And that’s a wonderful thing and that’s what we will always offer at Exodus.
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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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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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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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The ones that are running rampant within our churches largely go unaddressed.
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Or any other thing – are those people in danger of losing their salvation over those issues?
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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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Who need to be discipled and to pursue Christ in their life.
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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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I think we can all use a little bit of counseling on planet earth today. But when it comes to reparative therapy.
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