Or any other thing – are those people in danger of losing their salvation over those issues?
ALAN CHAMBERSThe 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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That’s good news and the church should offer it wholeheartedly to anyone.
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I know Christ. And that is secure. And I think that is something that actually helps believers pursue his holiness.
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I’m looking at offering biblical holiness, not an unrealistic expectation for people that will leave them disappointed.
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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 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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I think, again, if someone wants to know what I believe then look at my life.
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When I said on national television I still struggle.
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The ones that are running rampant within our churches largely go unaddressed.
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Someone’s always calling for my resignation. It’s nothing new.
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I’m not saying that people should live in unrepentant sin. I’m not saying that that’s a mark of a mature believer at all.
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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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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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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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So to pick and choose that once you come to Christ you’re never going to struggle in those areas again or never fall prey to stumbling in those ways again, I just, I don’t think we can assure that.
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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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