Jeffrey McCall: Easy to see just HOW threatening this guy is to The Left
Posted on 05/22/2019 8:27:37 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Men and women who once lived and identified as LGBT are set to proclaim how encountering Jesus transformed their lives for the second time in the nation's capital this weekend.
The Freedom March, founded by Jeffrey McCall, is diverse group of Christians who have left the active practice of homosexuality and transgenderism behind and are testifying to the power of the Holy Spirit who set them free from sexual sin and wounds of all kinds.
“I was transformed through the grace of Jesus and found that others have been as well. These marches are a way to ensure that others who have overcome are not feeling isolated and alone," McCall explained in a statement sent to The Christian Post. "There is an entire community of people that have made this transformation, and we are here to support them.”
The march will occur Saturday beginning at 1 p.m. at Sylvan Theatre, which is situated near the Washington Monument, where it was held last year
The purpose of the march, according to McCall, is to connect those who have left the LGBT life, reach out to the LGBTQ community in each city, and equip local churches that are seeking to know how to minister to LGBT-identified persons.
McCall noted that the march functions as a platform a to both bring people together and build community, and allow those who have been changed by Jesus to share their stories.
Luis Javier Ruiz, who is a survivor of the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando 2016, spoke at last year's march and will do so again Saturday. He is instrumental in setting up an upcoming Freedom March next year in Orlando and emphasizes the centrality of knowing God.
“I’ve always said it’s not about gay to straight. It’s about lost to saved,” Ruiz remarked.
“Through the Freedom Marches, we want to spread messages of love and acceptance for people who have shed their LGBTQ identity and show others that we do exist. These marches are our platform to educate, encourage others and share in a community. We’ve had a great response from people, other community groups and churches.”
Fellow Pulse survivor Angel Colon will also be speaking at the march Saturday.
Vocalist and Freedom March worship leader Edward Byrd noted in a Tuesday email to CP that the greatest misunderstanding about those who have left the LGBT life behind is that they are self-loathing and are suppressing their sexual desires.
"They think we are not happy, they think we are unfulfilled when in all actuality we are living our best lives. Not saying it’s always easy but the real joy, peace and freedom we have is nothing I ever known before," Byrd said.
While this is the second such rally to occur in Washington, D.C., another Freedom March was held in Los Angeles in the fall. Similar gatherings are planned for St. Paul, Minnesota, on June 23 and in Orlando on Sept. 14.
The march comes amid intensifying debate in both Congress and in state legislatures across the country as they consider outlawing counseling options for those with unwanted same-sex attraction and gender confusion, known as "conversion therapy" bans, as well as adding "gender identity" as a protected category in civil rights law.
The whole notion of "conversion therapy" is misleading, Byrd told CP, "because the majority of us has never experienced conversion therapy; our experiences were encounters with the Holy Spirit that changed our lives."
"I had never even heard of conversion therapy. I’ve seen references of it in the past but didn’t come into the knowledge of what it really was until recently," he said.
"None of us were ever forced to change or put in a camp; it was a decision that we made to follow after Jesus and His love."
God’s biology law
XX = female
XY = male
Belief in anything else is denying the science.
God Bless them.
Thank God for His work.
The Holy Spirit = the ultimate, irresistible, conversion therapy.
Jeffrey McCall: Easy to see just HOW threatening this guy is to The Left
I’m sorry - the Democrats have decided that you can only become gay. Going from gay to straight is illegal and you cannot tell other people about it.
Let’s talk about the LGBT suicide rate and the grief and regret their choices make.
bkmk
“God’s biology law
XX = female
XY = male
Belief in anything else is denying the science.”
Jacobs syndrome (47,XYY)
Klinefelter syndrome (47, XXY)
Triple X syndrome (47, XXX)
Turner syndrome (45,X)
XXYY syndrome (48, XXYY)
It can be about both.
Of course there are anomalies. Every science has them.
Rare, yes. But they’re there.
...Let’s talk about the LGBT suicide rate and the grief and regret their choices make.
https://www.hrc.org/blog/new-study-reveals-shocking-rates-of-attempted-suicide-among-trans-adolescen
More than half of transgender male teens who participated in the survey reported attempting suicide in their lifetime, while 29.9 percent of transgender female teens said they attempted suicide. Among non-binary youth, 41.8 percent of respondents stated that they had attempted suicide at some point in their lives.
This is marvelous. God bless them. True courage.
Everyone has thorns of the flesh of some kind
Same sex attraction is but one of many
IMHO, It is the battle against them that begins teaching spiritual warfare.
The Apostle Paul on the subject
2 Corinthians 12:7-9
How can we learn to battle Princes And Principalities
Until we have faced our own personal daemons?
We must stand aginst the dragons within before we can face those without.
Even if it’s a life long effort.
Surrendering to the Thorns of the Flesh profoundly weakens us.
There is no honor in an alcoholic falling into a drunken stupor
There is no honor in a pedophile accosting a child
There is no honor in failing in battle against any deadly sin
Honoring the thorns, or worse, being proud of them, is a horrible error
An even greater error is to teach others that is
good, wise, and to be commended to fall
Having the thorn of same sex attraction is
a cross to be born, a dragon to be slain
falling into it’s error, without repentance, is wrong. worse,
honoring it, teaching that it is good, wise, or to be commended
Is an abomination.
One cannot enter into the Kingdom of God, it is written.
The whole notion of “conversion therapy” is misleading, Byrd told CP, “because the majority of us has never experienced conversion therapy; our experiences were encounters with the Holy Spirit that changed our lives.
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Now they’re going to make laws against the Holy Spirit.
Why is everything LGBT and not a simple homosexual? I don’t know how many more letters have been added to the alphabet soup of homosexuals but to me it doesn’t matter. They are homosexuals and are suffering a mental illness.
They are not necessarily homosexuals because a transgender is a man who wants to be a woman and vice versa who is/are not necessarily attracted to people of the same sex.
Then you have the bi-sexuals who can go both ways, which make them not just homos.
Mental illness is varied and cannot simply be described with one term.
I am so glad you brought this up; because the suicide rates, especially for the Transgenders, is really way, way above the normal suicide rates in the U.S.
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