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.
ALAN CHAMBERSThat’s good news and the church should offer it wholeheartedly to anyone.
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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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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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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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I believe in sanctification at the point of salvation. That doesn’t mean that we don’t continue to mature as believers in Christ. But I believe that we are justified and we are sanctified.
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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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And that’s a wonderful thing and that’s what we will always offer at Exodus.
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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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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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Or any other thing – are those people in danger of losing their salvation over those issues?
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In all caps PERMANENT – reduction of their same-sex 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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I think it’s for me with regards to this issue I believe in justification at the point of salvation.
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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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That’s good news and the church should offer it wholeheartedly to anyone.
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You know my issue isn’t whether gay people go to heaven or straight people go to heaven.
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