“It says in this world you will have trouble in John 16:33 but take heart you can have peace in me because I’ve overcome the world.”

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.

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.

It’s about pursuing a relationship with Christ.

We’ve made it bigger; the resolution for this needs to be bigger than for other people.

And then there are encouragements to use heterosexual pornography or heterosexual images to encourage heterosexual attraction.

So to pick and choose that once you come to Christ you’re never going to struggle in those areas again or never fall prey to stumbling in those ways again, I just, I don’t think we can assure that.

I think it’s for me with regards to this issue I believe in justification at the point of salvation.

A man who would tell me that I am pretty, unless he is over seventy, ought to be kicked out of the room. But a man who can’t show me that he thinks me so without saying a word about it, is a lout.

I started in business over 25 years ago and have found a way to build on what I’ve learned through every partnership and opportunity.

Now this is over thirty years later and the guy said he was that cab driver. He apologized and he was serious. I felt awful. He might have been spending his whole life thinking he had jinxed me, but I told him he hadn’t. My number was up.

If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over.

My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.

I’m open to everything. When you start to criticize the times you live in, your time is over.

Blank cartridges should never be used against a mob, nor should a volley be fired over the heads of the mob even if there is little danger of hurting persons in the rear. Such things will be regarded as an admission of weakness, or an attempt to bluff, and may do more harm than good.

One is never over-dressed or underdressed with a Little Black Dress.