“I find it a golden idol, honestly, where we have been hypocritical to ask people to resolve this issue in a way that we haven’t encouraged other people with other struggles to resolve.”

I think we’ve made it a golden idol. I think we in the church have treated it differently than we’ve treated anything else.

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.

As we were told, was presented to him in golden cups… I observed a number of jars, above fifty, brought in, filled with foaming chocolate of which he took some.

The Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.

Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.

Sit and do nothing. Every once in a while a golden fish swims by and lays her golden eggs. You’ll know.

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.

Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.

I believe in the Golden Rule – The Man with the Gold… Rules.