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Originally Posted by ILG
I'm not saying that it can't be successfully done. I am saying that an adulterous woman should not counsel alone with a male pastor (this is practiced regularly in churches as a precaution even with non-adulterous women!) It just makes sense CBO...nothing personal is meant by it and I did not mean to offend you. It's just that I believe that certain boundaries are appropriate in certain situations. I think two former homosexual males would be wise not to counsel alone together but with another present or in groups. Even if nothing innappropriate is taking place, false accusations are something on top of everything else to be concerned about along with the other concerns in that situation.
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This was what I meant by the church needing to be educated regarding sin...homosexuality. The sin of adultery is a sexual sin just like homosexuality. Sexual sins are very difficult for some because that sin become en-grained in the very fiber of those individuals that struggle with those sins.
When you meet someone like Brother ******* in FL who was a drunkard....do you still see him and label him as a former drunkard or do you see him as a man of God? If we are ever going to see people set free from homosexuality we must see them through the cross of Calvary and through the eyes of Jesus.
Are my sins any different than yours if I've been forgiving and delivered? Would you feel comfortable if others in the church would gossip about your former life? It is fitting for me to give my testimony of deliverance for the Glory of God and give hope to others steeped in similar sins.
But to label me as a "former" would take away from the very act of redemption I found at Calvary. If Christ doesn't remember my sins what gives others permission to remember and not forget them too.