Or any other thing – are those people in danger of losing their salvation over those issues?
ALAN CHAMBERSI think we’ve made it a golden idol. I think we in the church have treated it differently than we’ve treated anything else.
More Alan Chambers Quotes
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When they don’t have to live in that fear or that life of condemnation wondering whether God’s going to yank His relationship from them
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One of the many evils this world has to offer is the sin of homosexuality.
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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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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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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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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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It’s something that’s been part of my tenure at Exodus over the last decade plus.
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That’s good news and the church should offer it wholeheartedly to anyone.
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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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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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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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Well, I find it interesting first that this all centers around the issue of homosexuality and we don’t bring in any other sin issue into the picture.
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My beliefs and my desires have changed. They have come into alignment with who he is and who he created you to be.
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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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