Someone’s always calling for my resignation. It’s nothing new.
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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Certainly if someone looks at my life, they will see that I have surrendered my heart, my life to Jesus Christ.
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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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And that’s a wonderful thing and that’s what we will always offer at Exodus.
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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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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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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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We’ve made it bigger; the resolution for this needs to be bigger than for other people.
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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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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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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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The ones that are running rampant within our churches largely go unaddressed.
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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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I’m not saying that people should live in unrepentant sin. I’m not saying that that’s a mark of a mature believer at all.
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They’re a wonderful and balanced group of people and I’m grateful for their support.
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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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Through biblical community in their local church, through honesty and transparency, sharing what it is that troubles them, being accountable.
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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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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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I believe the gay community is a good group of people but with groups like NAMBLA [a pedophile group] riding on their coattails.
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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.
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I think, again, if someone wants to know what I believe then look at my life.
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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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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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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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