For other people who are involved in unrepentant sin whether it’s the sin of homosexual sexual expression or gluttony or pride or heterosexual sexual expression outside of a monogamous heterosexual marriage.
ALAN CHAMBERSThat’s good news and the church should offer it wholeheartedly to anyone.
More Alan Chambers Quotes
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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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I think that’s really where we need to be more consistent as believers.
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One of the many evils this world has to offer is the sin of homosexuality.
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The point that I’m trying to make is that we as believers can have security in Christ when we are believers.
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I don’t differentiate between this one sin struggle than any other.
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Certainly anyone who comes to faith in Christ has a new heart and they have an opportunity for new life and that’s a wonderful thing.
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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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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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I think, again, if someone wants to know what I believe then look at my life.
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And that’s a wonderful thing and that’s what we will always offer at Exodus.
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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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You know my issue isn’t whether gay people go to heaven or straight people go to heaven.
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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 think we as believers can be secure in our relationship with Christ. I’m not saying that sin isn’t sin.
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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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It’s about pursuing a relationship with Christ.
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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.
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It says in this world you will have trouble in John 16:33 but take heart you can have peace in me because I’ve overcome the world.
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When I said on national television I still struggle.
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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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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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I’m grateful for people’s opinions but I choose to surrender and to serve Christ and Christ alone and in that my life has changed.
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I am eternally secure. I gave my heart to Christ and that gift of salvation is irrevocable.
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In all caps PERMANENT – reduction of their same-sex attraction.
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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.
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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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