There is no doubt the winds of social change are blowing aimlessly across America with emphasis being placed upon “tolerance” – which is to be extended to everyone and anyone without limitation and to any and all kinds of sexual expression. Is there nothing wrong with sex as long as it is consensual? And if there is something wrong, what is it? Does it really come down to a matter of personal taste, of private sentiment and personal choice? Have we become a nation that gains our sense of purpose and meaning primarily from our sexual desires and behavior?

On every hand you find those “who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness…” (Isaiah 5:20). With all sorts of opinions consuming the airwaves, media and Internet, it appears everything is now up for debate – even the subject of homosexuality.

The moral status of America cannot be determined on the basis of population figures. There is no such thing as statistical morality. America’s blind, amoral pursuit of pleasure at any price, and in any form, has indeed perpetuated the social and dark spiritual dynamics which have birthed and inflamed the various forms of sexual perversion.

While there are those still attempting to make The Bible and Christianity socially and culturally relevant by rewriting and redefining biblical standards, I find tremendous comfort and strength in knowing God’s Word remains steadfast from generation to generation. Therefore, it remains crucial that each and every true faithful follower of Christ Jesus understand and embrace “thus saith the Lord” when it comes to homosexuality and other issues of our time. Ultimately, God is not and will not be mocked, and there is no way anyone can legitimately rewrite or circumvent what God prohibits.

Based upon my own personal experience with regard to homosexual practice, I know all too well that any individual choosing to practice homosexuality, in any form or to any degree, cannot glorify God and will eventually downward spiral as described by the Apostle Paul in Romans 1:21-27:

“For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles. Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator – who is forever praised. Amen. Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in them the due penalty for their perversion.”

But the good news is “if we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness” (1 John 1:8) – no matter how sinister, dark, rebellious or disobedient our heart may be.

How well I remember my first reading of 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 – “Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the Kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the Name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.”

What hope, peace and comfort this passage gave me. Clearly, according to God, anyone can be cleansed from and overcome homosexuality by the blood of Jesus. It has been 28 years since I surrendered my life to Christ and 28 years of victory over homosexuality.

Today, there are those reluctant to call homosexuality sin. However, I would submit to call homosexuality sin actually offers hope to anyone that struggles with homosexuality. The Lord has not changed, nor will He ever alter His Word to accommodate man’s sinful desires and choices.

The reality of an across-the-board crisis of sexual and relational brokenness in America clearly points to an increasing inability, as a society, to make healthy and moral distinctions. Even those who place a high premium on tolerance are obligated to recognize that matters of various sexual lifestyles now threatens the very values and institutions on which a solid and vital society is built and sustained.

What matters morally should and must be determined on the basis of our best understanding about what constitutes human well-being. Today, more than ever, responsible American citizens who truly care for the greater social good of America are obligated to impose, if not place under the microscope, a moral gaze on their sexual behavior. Unfortunately, not every American is willing or responsive enough to such an obligation. What’s more they do not want anyone to hold them responsible.

Those who have the self-respect to recognize that a person is not reducible to his or her desires or behavior truly exhibit a concern for social justice, personal responsibility and a true love for this nation which seeks nothing higher than the welfare of people. When a person’s actions, no matter how well-intentioned or sincere, endanger the well-being of society, criticism is both appropriate and necessary. Irresponsible sexual behavior, is one of our nation’s most destructive realities. How is it in choosing to dismiss and disregard a moral compass, we are shocked by the state of our culture?

Speaking as someone that was trapped for many years in a behavior and lifestyle, thinking there was no way out, I completely understand how anyone might have difficulty in believing in and receiving God’s forgiveness and restoration. “But Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever” (Hebrews 13:8). God remains rich in mercy and remains willing to deliver anyone. “He is forever our great Sin-bearer and the God who forgives” (Psalm 99:8).

The Way Out

Jesus Christ is the alternative. He addresses the problem – man limited to self – and provides the way through which we can find fulfillment in God and His people. By releasing us from the dictates of the past, Jesus frees us to live as new creatures. The Holy Spirit carries on that process of change in our lives. His Way Out Ministries arose in response to those needs, with the aim of encouraging those with a same-sex attraction background on to wholeness in Jesus. His grace is sufficient, for His strength is made perfect in weakness. He proves the mooring point for a new identity – the center out of which a true sense of well-being can be achieved and enjoyed. As we close to Him we are enabled to reflect His image in our humanity more and more fully.

His Way Out Ministries believes such love is Christ’s intent for us and we affirm His capacity to carry it out in our lives and in the lives of those who seek to be free from homosexuality.

From All of Us at His Way Out Ministries…
To each of you who continually bless us by your encouragement, ministry participation, monthly financial support, offerings and prayers…we remain truly grateful.

Pastor Phillip Lee
Executive Director
His Way Out Ministries

© copyright His Way Out Ministries

Today, there are those wanting Christianity, but not without sexual expression. In short, they want it all, a common malady of our time. Today, even knowing the Scriptural condemnations of homosexual practice in both the Old and New Testaments as being clear and final, there are those on a continued quest to find some way to get around them. Any sexual behavior outside of heterosexual marriage, whether heterosexual or homosexual is sin, and is forbidden by the Word of God. It does not matter, in the end, whether we can explain why God has spoken in the way He has; the essential issue is what He has spoken.

C.S. Lewis once wrote, “No amount of falls will really undo us if we keep picking ourselves up each time. We will, of course, be very muddy and tattered children by the time we reach home, but the bathrooms are ready, the towels put out and the clean clothes are waiting. The only fatal thing is to lose one’s temper and give up. It is when we notice the dirt, that God is present in us. It is the very sign of His presence.”

During my twenty years of ministry, I have often noticed that it is often the individual’s disposition that renders them powerless to do what they know they should do. With so many completely consumed by focusing upon and addressing their “sin,” how is it the huge aspect of “our will,” which is quite profound, is often not considered and even dismissed? If “I can’t or I won’t” is present, I submit the critical issue is not one of sin but of the will.

God tells us clearly in His Word that we all must abide (live continually) in His Word enabling us to become His disciples (learners who do not resist His teachings) and then we will know the truth and it is the truth that will set us free. Far too many today are banking on ‘love’ to set them free. This is a huge lie that has enslaved many. When you look at the root causes of heterosexual sexual addiction and homosexual practice, it is obvious they are rooted in the lie that someone of the same or opposite sex will be everything anyone could possibly need.

In order to obey God, our thinking must change to align with His. Admittedly, this can be much easier said than done because over time, we have been introduced, if not bombarded with lies – many of which we have chosen to embrace and believe. Lies left unattended or addressed have the potential to develop into strongholds in our lives and also have the potential to become the foundation from which we form our self-worth and identity which directly impacts our walk with Christ greatly.

Romans 6:17-18 tells us, “But thanks be to God that though you used to be slaves to sin, you whole-heartedly obeyed the form of teaching to which you have been entrusted. You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.”

So it is proven here by the Word of God that all Christians can be set free from being slaves to sin. That said, I believe it is critically important we all realize that being a slave to sin is more than just sinning. Every man and woman who lives on this earth sins, but those who are slaves to sin make the choice (exercising our free-will) to follow the evil desires and walk after the flesh and not the Spirit. Therefore, to hear and know that there is freedom from being a slave to sin,
homosexually or heterosexually, is truly good news. This is the grace of God.

Our personal choice, responsibility and action is to exchange the lies we have embraced for the truth – and, live by the truth. Then we will be set free by the power of living by the truth and not the lies. So break the power of statements of discouragement and hopelessness such as “I’ll never be free,” by exercising your will and choose to say the truth, “God is setting me free by the power of His truth as I learn to live by it.”

John 8:31-32 clearly states, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth and the truth will set you free.”

Wake up every morning and thank God for whom you truly are in Him. Exercise your free-will and put off the old man and put on the new. God has pledged to deliver those who agree with His judgment of homosexual practice and heterosexual sexual brokenness. By pursuing God’s truth and aligning our will with His, the man or woman in bondage will be washed, sanctified and justified (1 Corinthians 6:11) and set free (John 8:32, 36).

Ultimately, it is only when we pursue Truth that we are able to know true love and share it with others (1 Peter 1:22). There is no security or freedom in homosexual practice or heterosexual sexual sin, only dependency, bondage, neediness, perversity, addiction and death. Today, set your will in His and declare, “…yet not my will, but yours be done.” (Luke 22:42)

From All of Us at His Way Out Ministries…

To each of you who continually bless us by your encouragement, ministry participation, monthly financial support, offerings, and prayers…we remain truly grateful. His Way Out Ministries is proclaiming to, educating and impacting the world with the biblical truth that freedom from homosexuality is possible when Jesus Christ if Lord of your life.

Pastor Phillip Lee
Executive Director
His Way Out Ministries

© copyright His Way Out Ministries

For Immediate Press Release – June 27, 2013
Response to Exodus International Closure and U.S. Supreme Court Rulings on Same-Sex Marriage

The His Way Out Ministries Executive Board/Officers and Advisory Council grieves the recent closure of Exodus International and decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court with regard to same-sex marriage. Once a powerful Christian ministry, Exodus International represented a considerable network of referral ministries dedicated to working with Christians who struggled with unwanted same-sex attractions. His Way Out Ministries joined Exodus in 1995 and became a referral ministry. However, several months ago, His Way Out Ministries withdrew membership from Exodus due to their adoption of new philosophies and interpretations of Scripture.

His Way Out Ministries continues to stand upon The Authority of Scripture and we remain committed to the biblical witness believing Scripture clearly defines homosexual practice, in any form and to any degree, incompatible with Christian teaching and conduct.

It must be recognized the push for the legalization of same-sex marriage remains a key component of achieving the legitimacy and social acceptance of homosexual practice. Western culture, and America in particular, is now faced with a challenge the significance of which is nearly impossible to exaggerate.

The truths must be spoken about homosexuality and same-sex marriage, and they must be spoken in love. That is, with compassion, understanding, and also with the full knowledge that truth is not always a soothing balm.

His Way Out Ministries is bound by love to speak the truth about homosexuality and same-sex marriage; this alone holds out the hope for true sexual liberation and personal wholeness – to the individual, family, and nation.

The only morally adequate response to homosexuality and same-sex marriage is that which combines compassion with understanding and the recognition that American society, in an amoral pursuit of pleasure at any price, and in any form, threatens to undermine all of America’s values and institutions.

Pastor Phillip Lee
Executive Director
His Way Out Ministries

His Way Out Ministries remains:

• Concerned regarding the issue of homosexuality and will continue to seek to minister to those within The Church and the community at large, with the Truth of Scripture, the power of testimony and the dialog of issues.
• Dedicated to raising awareness, educating, and encouraging The Church to minister to those with unwanted same-gender attraction. We believe restoration and wholeness is available through a personal relationship with Jesus Christ and the healing power of the Holy Spirit.
• Committed to lovingly communicate that God’s mercy and grace is available and sufficient for transformation. Restoration and wholeness, through competent ministry and a caring Christian community, is possible.
• Committed to effectively and compassionately communicating God’s heart concerning homosexual practice, in any form and to any degree, while disputing the unchangeable nature of sexual orientation.

The position of His Way Out Ministries rests on the Authority of Scripture. Therefore, we do not condone the practice of homosexuality and consider such practice incompatible with Christian teaching and conduct.

Founded in August 1994, His Way Out Ministries remains a network of individuals, families, ministries and churches dedicated to offering hope to those impacted by sexual and relational brokenness. We repudiate any non-loving, prejudicial attitudes that deny Christ’s unconditional love for all persons and declare such to be sin. Our intent is to extend a compassionate Christian ministry for such persons.

For more information, please contact Pastor Phillip Lee, Executive Director of His Way Out Ministries.

All His Way Out Ministries Services are centered on the biblical foundations of compassion, integrity, and dependence on God.

Because of my travels to churches and conferences, I come in contact with numerous Christians from all denominations. I am continually alarmed by the number of Christians that have been sexually active in ways that place them at great risk of contacting the HIV virus, which causes AIDS. Frankly, sometimes I come away from certain conversations wondering, “What’s the difference between the Church and the world?” when it comes to sexual involvement.

We have all heard the statement, “God hates sin but loves the sinner.” It has been my experience – both professionally and personally – that this is a true statement. Scripturally speaking, it is an undeniable fact that God hates sin. He hates every act of sin that has ever been committed. In fact, He intensely hates it because He understands that it ruins lives, destroys families and corrupts society. Ultimately, God cannot tolerate it because it does so much damage to people’s lives.

Experts agree that the answer to stopping the AIDS epidemic globally is not treatment, but prevention. They also agree that the best hope for prevention lies in changing human behavior. Never has the need and the opportunity been greater for the Christian community to take the lead in responding to this continuing crisis with conviction and compassion.

The global crisis of HIV/AIDS cries out for a united Christian response – a response that demonstrates the compassion of Jesus Christ while it declares the life-changing principles of God’s Word.

I remain convinced that God birthed , organized, equipped and continues to build His Church for the purpose of being the answer to many of life’s problems. We, The Church, are to be a lifeline for those struggling with sexual and relational brokenness, and most certainly health issues.

Therefore, with so much at stake, I wish to assure you that His Way Out Ministries will remain dedicated to continually resist popular trends toward licentiousness – the minimization of evil. Be assured that His Way Out Ministries does hate sin but loves sinners.