From Playboy Pornographer to Christian pastor: the unlikely story of Donny Pauling

Life Site News ^ | 3/21/2012 | John Jalsevac

[MrB]

You can always tell the person who hasn’t had the 2 Cor 5:17 change happen, because they can’t understand it in others, and continue to judge them by their “before” life, because the unchanged person is STILL in their “before” life.

[allmendream]

I don't work off government grants metmom, although I know what high regard you have for science and the myriad benefits it has brought to people in terms of application and discovery - and the high respect you have for scientists!

Thanks!

I will pray for you.

[metmom]

You can always tell the person who hasn’t had the 2 Cor 5:17 change happen, because they can’t understand it in others, and continue to judge them by their “before” life, because the unchanged person is STILL in their “before” life.

Exactly.....

[Albion Wilde]

“Instead of ... telling people that God was going to send them to hell where they would burn in torment,” members of XXXChurch “were inside setting up booths, doing makeup for girls,” Pauling said. “And instead of judging them, they told them that they were beautiful and that God loved them, and that there was nothing they could do that could change that, and that He wanted more for them.”

Eventually, Pauling says, he came to realize that if he were to be a Christian, “this is the kind of Christian I would want to be....”.... he credits the “love-based” approach of XXXChurch with bringing him to the point where he was able to send up that confused prayer in his car, and to listen to the response.

This is what would most likely work for gays, as well. It's better than hatred.