That's how a Christian should look at it if he can't get rid of it or anything that pulls you away from upright moral conduct.
Good article.
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Of course, he would have said it in German.
We all struggle with sin. Sometimes we win and sometimes we lose, but the fight is what's important. Those on the other side who have given up and given in and claim that there is no harm in it -- they are the ones who have gone astray. This man sounds like a good man.
We all have our crosses to bear, so to speak. He seems to be approaching it from the right perspective and is brave enough to ask for help in spite of the embarrassment and shame it brought upon him with his congregation. That’s a very admirable thing.
Does not reflect well on “Lavendar.”
These people want more than acceptance. They want adulation and special status.
Brock: I think the myth of our culture for the last 15 years or so has been that God makes you gay, you’re born gay, and even God won’t change that or can’t change that. And I do think that’s a myth – and I could be wrong on this, but I don’t think I am – my belief is that we are all born heterosexual, and that something early in life goes wrong.
A psychiatrist who’s worked with hundreds – if not thousands, I can’t remember what he said – but he said he’s never met one client who when he was a little boy had a close relationship with his father. Not that he couldn’t later in life. But of all the men that he’s treated for this, the big link is when they were real little, like two, three, or four years old, there was a breakdown with the same-sex parent.
Now that said, if indeed they ever find a ‘gay gene’ and it turns out to be genetic, it really still doesn’t change anything. If you believe in Original Sin, that we are all born sinners, and it all comes out in different ways in different lives, it really doesn’t change anything. There are people with criminal tendencies from birth, perhaps, but it doesn’t give them a right to rob a bank.
Good article, I wish him well.
I knew a man who had come out of the homosexual lifestyle and counseled others who were trying to leave that said exactly the same thing. Both males and females always had that damaged relationship with their fathers at an early age. It's an extremely difficult thing to overcome, possible only by complete surrender to Christ.
the left is so sick...this article just shows that Christians are really not part of this world. the call upon our lives is completely different than what the world thinks and wants it to be. the world will never get it. the only thing they can propose on our behalf is that they will kill us. this article is no different in kind than what Nero did in Rome.
This guy has it right. We may not be able to choose our tendency to sin, but we remain responsible for our behavior. God bless this pastor. I hope he is able to continue to fight sin. Looks like he is doing a better job than I (although I don’t have that particular temptation...).
I think we all struggle with temptations of one sort or another.
To recognize their problem seems to be like in AA where that is their first step. Now, with society saying that it is great to have an alternate life style, and to just run with it, seems to be the BIG problem. As long as people struggled with this and followed biblical teaching, it wasn't such an epidemic.
The recovery in AA requires practicing all of the steps!
It would be such a curse to be born with deviant sexual urges that you had to fight, especially if they strayed into criminal behavior if acted upon. I'm so grateful that all my sexual proclivities are not only perfectly normal and healthy, but downright admirable.
God bless this man.
The homosexual groups are hammering on him for “hypocrisy.” However it is not hypocritical to have a tendency and resist it if one knows it is wrong. What they SHOULD be hammering on is the fact that an individual violated confidentiality in order to out the pastor. It was an egregious thing to betray a trust.
God gives every single person something they have to overcome in some way. Something they have a difficulty with, something that to defeat they have to go to their knees. And some people are tempted with things others never had to deal with in any fashion, like homosexuality.
These things often are viewed completely differently by our worldly legal or moral systems. But God has very different eyes. What the world views as horrendous may be no different in God's view than something else the world views as ok.
And it is foolish to look down on any other person for these sins. Not only do we all have them; sometimes, we don't even know what they are.
Wonderful article. God be with him always ...
Good example.