“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.”

Who need to be discipled and to pursue Christ in their life.

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.

But sin resides, the power of sin resides in our flesh. It will always try us and it was always tempt us and therefore we always need to be submitting our mind, will and emotions to the lordship of Jesus Christ.

I think that’s really where we need to be more consistent as believers.

Certainly anyone who comes to faith in Christ has a new heart and they have an opportunity for new life and that’s a wonderful thing.

I think for believers you know we are helping people pursue holiness through a relationship with Christ.

They’re a wonderful and balanced group of people and I’m grateful for their support.

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.

Exodus will do that for people who come to us for help.

If we were talking about one of their sin issues we wouldn’t have addressed this at all. I find that hypocritical and inconsistent.

What I know about my relationship with Christ is that as a believer.

Certainly if someone looks at my life, they will see that I have surrendered my heart, my life to Jesus Christ.

I am sorry we promoted sexual orientation change efforts and reparative theories about sexual orientation that stigmatized parents.

I know Christ. And that is secure. And I think that is something that actually helps believers pursue his holiness.

So he can add his voice to the chorus of others whether it’s gay activists or now a New Testament professor.

My beliefs and my desires have changed. They have come into alignment with who he is and who he created you to be.

I asked what you love, you said, ‘Anything with words.’

Until you make the effort to get to know someone or something, you don’t know anything.

And I was like, “Yeah, anything. Twenty-four hours times five is 120 hours. Oh, great, I’ll fill 120 hours of my life with something.” So I did that and it was fun, and then I did Flirting with Disaster.

If you always have a crutch, you don’t learn anything.

Oh, you can milk just about anything with nipples.

Never agree to say or do anything that isn’t you.

I have never felt bereft of anything.

I’m not really a strange person or anything, so if there’s music I like, usually there’s other people who like it too.