Posted on 04/07/2018 5:42:37 PM PDT by marshmallow
No longer content with widespread acceptance, activists are fighting to eliminate any program aimed at helping those struggling with same-sex attraction or gender identity
OKLAHOMA CITY, April 3, 2018 /Christian Newswire/ -- "The level of hatred and bullying is not like anything we've seen," says Stephen Black, who lived as a gay man for 8 years, over 35 years ago, and now Executive Director of First Stone Ministries is in the crosshairs of gay activists.
Black is the author of a ground-breaking book that reveals that 70-percent of people who want freedom from a destructive same-sex lifestyle find it. In Freedom Realized Black and his colleagues examined 25 years of case files and found incontrovertible evidence that people can and do change.
On April 6, First Stone Ministries (firststone.org) is hosting a public screening of the documentary film, Tranzformed: Finding Peace with Your God-Given Gender (tranzformed.org/). "This documentary is about 15 people who were unhappy as homosexuals and transgendered and wanted more in their relationship with Jesus Christ," says Black. Gay activists have already sent death threats to a Michigan pastor and his family and are now setting their sights on Black.
Gay advocate and protestor, Sara Cunningham, vowed to close First Stone Ministries (she appealed for a $25,000 grant from Starbucks for her mission). Her goal is to mobilize and eliminate any mention of the possibility of change, even if people want it and even if it means a transformed life. "To agree to disagree on this issue and this type of ministry is no longer acceptable," says Cunningham. But Black sees it differently, "In the last ten years, there has been an increasing attack on the gospel-centered message of freedom from homosexuality." Activists are intent on shutting down any counseling that leads to new life in......
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Hate Crime. Oh wait, they are not Christian they are perverts... Nevermind...
That’s wonderful for her. It’s a behavior that can be changed if the person really wants to.
Starbucks? Who needs their overpriced coffee? I never go there and it has little to do with politics. I don’t like getting ripped off.
It’s no wonder so many homosexuals commit suicide. Imagine looking ahead to long years of being used as a backdoor sperm bank by thousands of faceless men.....then finding out you can’t opt out.
These people are literally killing children by stopping them from leaving the sick and sinful lifestyle. Jesus took a dim view of such.
Although he had several "relationships" he always felt something was missing in his life. In his late twenties he realized what it was. He wanted a family. Wife, kids the whole package.
He decided to move far away where no one knew him or about his lifestyle. Then he started dating women. He kissed a girl and he liked it. After a year or so he found the wife he wanted and got married. They now have a couple of kids.
He said that having a relationship with a woman was a lot more work because it was more intimate and sometimes he had to work out what his wife wanted rather then just knowing. He said that sometimes he missed the days of casual sex but found that the rewards outweighed the negatives.
After I read it I wondered just how many young men have followed that same path but never knew there was a way out.
“...’Your Faith be Damned’...”
Sorry legbuts, but that ain’t the way damnation works.
Damned by who?
Whatever happened to *A woman (person) has a right to do what they want with their own body*????
Liberals are all for change when it comes to becoming gay, but when it’s going back, all hell breaks loose.
The hypocrisy is staggering.
They don’t really want you to have any choice about your own life or your own body.
My sister knows several gays and says that they all hate being gay.
Derek Prince claims that homosexuality is a result of demonization of a person and when the demon is taken care of, the desire for perverted sex is gone.
I believe it, especially considering how many homosexuals were molested as children and sexual abuse virtually opens the floodgates for demonic activity in a person’s life.
My daughter had that happen with a friend of hers while they were in college.
I’ve decided it is fruitless to battle these leftist groups one by one when the truth is that there are only two human conditions: eyes wide open and blind.
We can’t change them with anger, or argument, and certainly not with acceptance of their point of view. Absent miracles, it will just play itself out until the end.
You are correct sir. I don't wish hell fire and brimstone on anyone, but they, along with all Godless people, will have earned it. I doubt any of them can claim they were not warned.
They can go into schools and recruit little kids to explore and try homosexuality and/or transgenderism but people who want to LEAVE that sinful and destructive lifestyle can’t have an organization that helps people to do so??? What hypocrites!
Well said!
I wrote this many years ago and have posted it many times. It’s still relevant:
There is no genetic test or procedure (experimental or otherwise) that can determine one’s sexual orientation. When people claim to be gay and we believe them, what we’re really doing is taking them at their word. We believe their claim, we believe their testimony and we believe their declaration that they are gay.
But there are some people who are suddenly skeptical when one claims to be ex-gay. They don’t believe the ex-gay claim, they don’t believe the ex-gay testimony nor their declaration that they are ex-gay.
When somebody uses a certain standard to measure the credibility of what one group says, but then refuses to use the same standard to measure the credibility of what another group says—thereby ignoring the claims of the second group (ex-gays)—he should ask himself why he believes one group and not the other... This is a double standard.
More proof that their demands were never about ‘equal rights’. They have always wanted superior rights and the destruction of their enemies.
Never give an inch to these people.
JoMa
Last week in Youngstown Ohio I saw the local news while passing through and it indicated an event was being held in the basement of St Johns Episcopal Church where LGBT people can come and there will be people there to assist them in changing their name to suit their desired gender.
http://www.wkbn.com/news/local-news/lgbt-community-gets-name-changing-legal-advice-in-youngstown/1102248914
Genesis 18:20-21
20. Then the LORD said, "The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sin so grievous
21. that I will go down and see if what they have done is as bad as the outcry that has reached me. If not, I will know."
Genesis 19:4-7
4. Before they had gone to bed, all the men from every part of the city of Sodom--both young and old--surrounded the house.
5. They called to Lot, "Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them."
6. Lot went outside to meet them and shut the door behind him
7. and said, "No, my friends. Don't do this wicked thing.
Leviticus niv
18:22 Do not have sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman; that is detestable.
20:13 If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.
Isaiah 3:9 The look on their faces testifies against them; they parade their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it. Woe to them! They have brought disaster upon themselves.
2 Peter 2:13b Their idea of pleasure is to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their pleasures while they feast with you.
Ezekiel 16:49-50
49. "`Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy.
50. They were haughty and did detestable things before me. Therefore I did away with them as you have seen.
1. But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them--bringing swift destruction on themselves.
2. Many will follow their shameful ways and will bring the way of truth into disrepute.
3. In their greed these teachers will exploit you with stories they have made up. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping.
4. For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell, putting them into gloomy dungeons to be held for judgment;
5. if he did not spare the ancient world when he brought the flood on its ungodly people, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others;
6. if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes, and made them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly;
7. and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man, who was distressed by the filthy lives of lawless men
8. (for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)--
9. if this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue godly men from trials and to hold the unrighteous for the day of judgment, while continuing their punishment.
10. This is especially true of those who follow the corrupt desire of the sinful nature and despise authority. Bold and arrogant, these men are not afraid to slander celestial beings;
11. yet even angels, although they are stronger and more powerful, do not bring slanderous accusations against such beings in the presence of the Lord.
12. But these men blaspheme in matters they do not understand. They are like brute beasts, creatures of instinct, born only to be caught and destroyed, and like beasts they too will perish.
13. They will be paid back with harm for the harm they have done. Their idea of pleasure is to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their pleasures while they feast with you.
But there IS hope!!!
1 Corinthians 6:9-11
9. Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived:
Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders
10. nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
11. And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
If you could NOT change, you would be in most pitiful shape...
You have to ask yourself this, how can a Church of Jesus Christ deny Christ and serve sin, and still be considered a Church??
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