When I said on national television I still struggle.
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.
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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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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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In all caps PERMANENT – reduction of their same-sex attraction.
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It’s about pursuing a relationship with Christ.
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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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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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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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I am opposed to special rights for gays just as I am opposed to special rights for heterosexuals or smokers.
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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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I think it’s for me with regards to this issue I believe in justification at the point of salvation.
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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 am sorry we promoted sexual orientation change efforts and reparative theories about sexual orientation that stigmatized parents.
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They’re a wonderful and balanced group of people and I’m grateful for their support.
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How can we quantify that? How can you even know that that’s what you have experienced? And what if at some point you fall to 85 percent or 70 percent?
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