It’s something that’s been part of my tenure at Exodus over the last decade plus.
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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Issues of pride and judgment and gossip and slander and other types of sexual immorality, gluttony, you name it.
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It’s about pursuing a relationship with Christ.
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That’s good news and the church should offer it wholeheartedly to anyone.
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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 think we can all use a little bit of counseling on planet earth today. But when it comes to reparative therapy.
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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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And that’s a wonderful thing and that’s what we will always offer at Exodus.
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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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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 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 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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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 think that’s really where we need to be more consistent as believers.
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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 am opposed to special rights for gays just as I am opposed to special rights for heterosexuals or smokers.
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