Unfortunately, and tragically, far too many men and women have been told that God holds homosexuals in some sort of special contempt. However, Romans assures us that is not so.

Since humanity as a whole has turned away from God, everyone has been given up to something.

There is no difference because all have sinned and come short of the glory of God – (Romans 3:22-23).

We are all equally under the judgment of God. All are equally in need of a Savior.

I believe the reality and depth of God’s love can be summed up in one word – “whosoever.”

Forty-one years ago, surrendering my life to Christ Jesus, I, like many, many other men and women once bound and ensnared by the brokenness of same-sex attraction, entered and began a process of becoming the men and women God had always intended us to be and live.

Personally-speaking, my journey began with recognizing and agreeing with God that homosexual behavior is sin, followed by renouncing the practice of homosexual behavior, rediscovering healthy, non-erotic friendships with people of the same-sex, embracing Biblical sexual ethics and lifestyle and believing that my absolute, total and complete deliverance, free from every sinful impulse, will come when either I go home to be with Jesus or He comes back to get His own.

Thankfully and gratefully, I became surrounded by godly men and women, that in spite of my particular form of brokenness, offered respect, honest, straight-forward reasoning, and did not withhold facts concerning the immorality and liability of homosexual conduct and behavior.

I offer this specific and particular aspect of freedom from same-sex attraction for good reason.

To forbid fornication and adultery as acceptable behavior or lifestyle – but state that homosexual practice is not forbidden, constitutes a religious travesty – culturally and Biblically – and has empowered a huge step toward the Church becoming powerless and irrelevant.

You cannot undermine Biblical authority and trivialize the reality and significance of “heaven or hell,” as well as The Cross being the door providing the portal and the means for each man and each woman to go beyond all the limits and expect to have and maintain a vibrant Christian community and Church.

There is hope for the man or woman with the brokenness of same-sex attraction with Jesus Christ offering a healing alternative in which the power of sin is broken, and the person is freed to know and experience his or her true identity in the fellowship of His Church.

However, for individuals, families and the Church – the extension of grace without truth accomplishes nothing.

Pastor Phillip Lee
Executive Director
His Way Out Ministries

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Pastor Phillip Lee sharing with His Excellency, Governor General of Jamaica, Dr. Patrick Allen.