My First Gay Thread

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Originally Posted by llambert

Hello everyone:

I don't post here much, but this caught my attention.

This link gives info on people who were once homosexual and have had total freedom:

http://www.lifeministry.org/- The woman who is the CEO of the ministry was in lesbianism for 10 years (her lesbian lover broke her heart). Just about all of their staff were also at one point homosexual (one leader was a pastor while having a male lover who broke up with him in the same week that he tested positive for HIV). I have met these people and believe that they are totally heterosexual now. This ministry started in NYC and has gone international with works in London, Colorado Springs, Latin, Central and South America

I have not met anyone from this next ministry, but I get the sense that there are testimonies of total deliverance to be found here as well:

http://www.witnessfortheworld.org/founder.html

Again, I don't know for certain, but I suspect that there may be testimonies of total deliverance from homosexuality in the mormon religion and in Islam as well.

This book

http://www.ebay.com/ctg/Aesthetic-Re...rback-/2774099also documents a secular movement that cured people from homosexuality

There is also a college student movement called Passion for Christ that has people giving their testimonies (although I don't know if any of these people are totally free or if they still deal with unwanted same sex attractions):

http://p4cm.com/p4cmwp/

Also, here is a good resource book from a pastor who is (I think) connected to COGIC, for ministry to the gay and lesbian community:

http://www.amazon.com/Ministering-Gr.../dp/076842268X

Finally, aren't there some people who post on here who were once attracted to the same sex and are now completely heterosexual? I seem to remember reading someone writing about this awhile back. There are probably people like this in our churches, but they may not feel led to share their testimonies publically. If you pray and ask around, God will lead you to these people who are right there in the church.

Homosexuality is a very heated issue and any discussion of it can bring up a lot of pain on all sides. It seems to me that if we're going to discuss it, we should refrain from sarcasm, assumption, coarse joking, accusation/blame and really listen to what each other is saying. To me if we can't yet have that kind of gracious and mature discussion on the topic, we should refrain from posting and just pray and ask God to guide us in how to listen and speak.

You know I really don't know why it is and if you'd look at the media you'd think it was a "heated issue" moreso because of the "hate preachers" like us Pentecostals and those pesky southern baptists who preach against sin. Truth is though, the passion is FAR more inflamed by the other side. Sin is sin, and as long as sin is sin and God requires holiness I'll stand on God's word and declare that sin is sin. I don't care if it's fornication, adultery, pornography, etc it's sin. There's no "fornication" parades however. People don't run around wearing shirts reading "I just fornicated last night" or "fornication pride". Most of the "sensitivity" comes from the very fact that this particular sin has been magnified and celebrated by the media to push an anti-family agenda. That's why when people say "be careful" about how you address this issue I tend to ignore it. It should be no more controversal then lying, bestiality, fornication, adultery, lying, cheating, stealing, etc. God hates those things as he does all sin. So I will preach against all sin, including homosexuality.