Alan Chambers Quotes

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’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, again, if someone wants to know what I believe then look at my life.
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Someone’s always calling for my resignation. It’s nothing new.
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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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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 am opposed to special rights for gays just as I am opposed to special rights for heterosexuals or smokers.
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Now on to reparative therapy, I think counseling is a wonderful tool for anybody regardless of what struggle they bring to the table.
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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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Within the membership we have 270 or so members within the network of Exodus whether that’s a local member ministry, a counselor or one of our members of our church association.
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When I said on national television I still struggle.
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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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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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For some that will mean getting the help or expertise of a counselor that can help them walk through and navigate through some of the traumatic things that they’ve been through in their life.
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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’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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You know my issue isn’t whether gay people go to heaven or straight people go to heaven.
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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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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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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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And then there are the offers of using homosexual pornography within the therapeutic process to help people understand why they’re struggling.
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One of the many evils this world has to offer is the sin of homosexuality.
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Exodus is a very large organization. My board of directors is supportive of me as the president of Exodus and are very much involved in my decision-making and those types of things.
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Who need to be discipled and to pursue Christ in their life.
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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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For someone to promise a percentage type cure for this issue, for instance I had someone who said they had experienced a 90 percent permanent.
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I think that’s really where we need to be more consistent as believers.
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