Alan Chambers Interviewed by New Man Magazine

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Alan Chambers Talks to New Man About His Ministry to Homosexuals

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New Man: How do you respond to the naysayers that say it is not even possible for people to change?

Chambers: Well I say you can’t tell me that my life hasn’t experienced radical change. To presume things for me would be as inappropriate as me speaking for you. I can’t tell someone that they haven’t experienced something that they say they have personally experienced. And for me that’s the truth. You can’t deny the fact that I’m different than I was 18 years ago.

New Man: You mentioned that some people might not have the same freedom that other people experience. Does same-sex attraction ever go away?

Chambers: For some people it does. There are people who have shared with me that they became a Christian and over time attraction diminished. There are a number of women who have shared that with me. For me, I’m a man and men are tempted visually, they are tempted by flesh. I’m a man so I have to be careful. And I’m married today and my attractions have changed dramatically. But the truth is I will never be as though I never was. And I have to be prepared for the fact that I could be tempted as part of human nature.

New Man: What advice can you give to the average Christian guy who may feel awkward around homosexuals but who at the same time wants to reach out to people who struggle with this issue?

Chambers: I think we’re living in a time where people are really insecure about their masculinity anyway. In general men who I’ve met, who are fearful of homosexuality or those who struggle with homosexuality, really don’t have a firm grasp on their own masculinity. So I think the first step is there. If you are someone who is afraid, and I mean genuinely afraid, of homosexuality or someone who is gay, I think you just have to realize that they are people just like anyone else and you’re not going to catch homosexuality as if they have some type of a sexually transmitted disease. You’re not going to catch that from being next to someone in line or shaking someone’s hand. If you’re afraid of what other people will think because you’re friends with someone who deals with this issue then I think you really have to get a better handle on who Christ is and what He taught us and that is to befriend people who are friendless and who need someone to reach out to them in a way that Christ would have absolutely reached out. We need to look past what they do and see what God says that they can be. …

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