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

The reason we have distanced ourselves from it is because some of the things that they employ and some of the messages that I’ve heard from reparative therapists with regards to what someone can expect once they get through that type of therapy.

I am eternally secure. I gave my heart to Christ and that gift of salvation is irrevocable.

That’s good news and the church should offer it wholeheartedly to anyone.

In all caps PERMANENT – reduction of their same-sex attraction.

Well, I find it interesting first that this all centers around the issue of homosexuality and we don’t bring in any other sin issue into the picture.

We will all struggle, we will all fall prey to some type of sin, some will fall prey to the same types of sin over and over again.

And that’s a wonderful thing and that’s what we will always offer at Exodus.

Through biblical community in their local church, through honesty and transparency, sharing what it is that troubles them, being accountable.

I am pursuing Christ wholeheartedly 100 percent. I don’t need a theologian or a set of man-made beliefs to guide me in my daily life.

For other people who are involved in unrepentant sin whether it’s the sin of homosexual sexual expression or gluttony or pride or heterosexual sexual expression outside of a monogamous heterosexual marriage.

I think we as believers can be secure in our relationship with Christ. I’m not saying that sin isn’t sin.

The ones that are running rampant within our churches largely go unaddressed.

I can attest to the fact that sexual orientation is not immutable and I urge the city council to vote no on this amendment.

Would Rob Gagnon and other people make as big a deal about that as they are with this? I don’t think so.

I think we can all use a little bit of counseling on planet earth today. But when it comes to reparative therapy.

Issues of pride and judgment and gossip and slander and other types of sexual immorality, gluttony, you name it.

You can understand why I’m a believer. I have seen miracles.

I’m a firm believer in that you play the way you practice.

Every single one of us is the descendant of a go-getter. Of dreamers and of believers.

Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.

God longs intensively for unhindered communication and total response between him and the believer indwelt by the Holy Spirit

There are boundless possibilities for us if we dare to act in God and dare to believe!

Often Satan injects pride into the believer’s spirit, evoking in him an attitude of self-importance and of self-conceit. He causes him to esteem himself a very outstanding person, one who is indispensable in God’s work. Such a spirit constitutes one of the major reasons for the fall of believers.

As a broadly left-wing, environmentally aware urban believer in anthropogenic global warming, I am all for a total ban on motor vehicles.