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.
ALAN CHAMBERSThat’s good news and the church should offer it wholeheartedly to anyone.
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The ones that are running rampant within our churches largely go unaddressed.
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We 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.
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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 pursuing Christ wholeheartedly 100 percent. I don’t need a theologian or a set of man-made beliefs to guide me in my daily life.
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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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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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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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I think, again, if someone wants to know what I believe then look at my life.
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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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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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When they don’t have to live in that fear or that life of condemnation wondering whether God’s going to yank His relationship from them
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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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In all caps PERMANENT – reduction of their same-sex attraction.
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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 can attest to the fact that sexual orientation is not immutable and I urge the city council to vote no on this amendment.
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