I think, again, if someone wants to know what I believe then look at my life.
ALAN CHAMBERSThat’s good news and the church should offer it wholeheartedly to anyone.
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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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Now on to reparative therapy, I think counseling is a wonderful tool for anybody regardless of what struggle they bring to the table.
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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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And that’s a wonderful thing and that’s what we will always offer at Exodus.
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Someone’s always calling for my resignation. It’s nothing new.
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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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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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I think it’s hypocritical and inconsistent for us to attack this one group of people over any other group of people that are within our churches today.
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A reparative therapist called me and said if you’ll come into therapy with me I can cure you of your temptations and attractions 100 percent.
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Well, 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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What I know about my relationship with Christ is that as a believer.
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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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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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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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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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