Evangelical leader Russell Moore denounces ex-gay therapy - Religion News Service
This guy gets it.
Those who sell the snake oil of "I can make a gay person straight" really need to stop.
Those who obfuscate to ignore the damage they do? You're putting your ideology above the actual good of people and ignoring the harm that is done.
I cannot comment on the right or wrong of gayness. It is being debated by people smarter than me philosophically, and they don't agree one way or the other. What I do know is a church should be about getting people saved.
Furthermore you don't have to change anything about yourself before receiving Christ as your savior. His father created you as he created him.
People rightly remember John 3:16 but often forget the very next verse just as important, paraphrasing, "For Jesus did not come to condemn the world, but so that the world might be saved."
So if you are a banker or a drug dealer or a homosexual or a thief, or a house wife, you don't need to jump through ANY hoops, or change ANY thing, but just believe Christ died for your sins, reflect on and be sorry for your sins, and ask God's forgiveness in Jesus name. You are set free.
You may then want to change, begin to change or stay the same. That is between you and God. He knows the inner workings of your heart. It's easy; it's painless; it's joyous. The only thought for your past might be, "Why didn't I do this sooner?" It is unbound love.
Never let a clergyman tell you you have to do anything else. Because that is not the way. The way is in the Bible clearly spelled out. Jesus is the only way to salvation. If you could be saved by helping a homeless family or changing your hair color, or become celibate, Christ need not have died. These may be beneficial things to your earthly life, and we are all tasked with doing good when we are aware what it is, but nothing will help you have eternal life except Jesus the savior.
After you are saved, I suggest you start reading John.
Thank you, and have an exciting, happy day; be blessed and bless someone.
