“Let me be clear that I’m not God so I can’t tell you who is and isn’t going to heaven.”

How can we quantify that? How can you even know that that’s what you have experienced? And what if at some point you fall to 85 percent or 70 percent?

And then there are the offers of using homosexual pornography within the therapeutic process to help people understand why they’re struggling.

A reparative therapist called me and said if you’ll come into therapy with me I can cure you of your temptations and attractions 100 percent.

One of the many evils this world has to offer is the sin of homosexuality.

Exodus is a very large organization. My board of directors is supportive of me as the president of Exodus and are very much involved in my decision-making and those types of things.

But as a property owner of Orlando, I wouldn’t rent to someone who is gay any more than I would rent to a person who is a practicing witch.

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.

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.

I’d sort of gone through some sort of spiritual change in the late 70s where I sort of saw there was some other life to live. It changed the way that I worked just having a different presence and a different tension.

I think that there are few people in one’s life that you never really feel that they’re gone. I have to remind myself that she isn’t around.

There are no restrictions of taste, approach, or subject matter. The gatekeepers are gone, so the prospect for new and different voices is exciting. Or at least it will be if anyone reads them.

One hundred years from now, we’ll all be dead. It’s hard to believe. One hundred years from now, everyone we see every day will be gone.

I’ve gone on workout regimes, but I seem to have a system that is very resistant to changing.

Well, the past is gone, I know that. The future isn’t here yet, whatever it’s going to be. So, all there is, is this. The present. That’s it.

Don Knotts left [Andy Griffith Show] to pursue a movie career, so once he was gone I left too.

When someone who’s always been in your life is gone, it’s a stunning adjustment of your own identity.