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Is Homosexuality Simply a Choice? – Real Answers Article for August 2010

August 26, 2010 by Angela Buchanan · View Comments

… To be honest, I had a hard time feeling compassion for someone who chose to engage in behavior that I couldn’t comprehend and frankly didn’t want to understand. Our lack of grace often comes from a place of ignorance – that was the case in my situation. Before I met Jeff, I didn’t know the complexity behind those who dealt with same-sex attractions. When I first heard him say, “I didn’t choose to feel this way,” it messed with everything I had believed up to that point. …

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Unconditional Surrender by Gwen Gibson – Real Stories for August 2010

August 26, 2010 by Randy Thomas · View Comments

… In my twenties, the struggle over my sexual identity increased. I felt out of place in church and stopped attending. I never felt like I belonged, and I had no one to talk to about my struggles. I was barely able to admit to myself how I felt. When I had a sexual relationship with another woman I thought, finally, the barrier was broken, surely the happiness would follow. However, I came to discover over a period of months that whatever the need was that I had, this was not touching it. I remember thinking to myself, I am not sure what I am longing for, but this isn’t it.
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Letter from Brazil – Alan Chambers Ministers and Experiences God’s Amazing Grace

August 26, 2010 by Randy Thomas · View Comments

I am writing to you from Mage’, Brazil – a very poor city about 40 miles from Rio de Janeiro. I was invited to be the keynote speaker at an annual institute held at Central Baptist Church. The pastor’s wife originally learned about Exodus and me when she saw a pastor on television promoting God’s Grace and the Homosexual Next Door, the book that I wrote with Mike Goeke, Randy Thomas, Scott Davis and Melissa Fryrear. They ordered the book and for the first time ever realized there was a ministry out there for people seeking freedom from homosexuality. They know so many people in their area who are struggling with same-sex attraction or who are gay-identified and wanted to know how to minister to them….