That, I think, sets people up for unrealistic expectations and is something that I’m not willing to offer when we’re sharing these types of messages or presenting what was presented to me.
ALAN CHAMBERSThat’s good news and the church should offer it wholeheartedly to anyone.
More Alan Chambers Quotes
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I think that’s really where we need to be more consistent as believers.
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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 as a property owner of Orlando, I wouldn’t rent to someone who is gay any more than I would rent to a person who is a practicing witch.
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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 find it a golden idol, honestly, where we have been hypocritical to ask people to resolve this issue in a way that we haven’t encouraged other people with other struggles to resolve.
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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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And then there are encouragements to use heterosexual pornography or heterosexual images to encourage heterosexual attraction.
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I think for believers you know we are helping people pursue holiness through a relationship with Christ.
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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 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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I think we’ve made it a golden idol. I think we in the church have treated it differently than we’ve treated anything else.
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So he can add his voice to the chorus of others whether it’s gay activists or now a New Testament professor.
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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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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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Someone’s always calling for my resignation. It’s nothing new.
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