The The Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (Southern Baptist) has highlighted the testimony of Richard Holloman. Richard is the Director of The Sight Ministry in Nashville Tennessee and is also the Exodus Regional Coordinator for the Southern Gulf region. He’s a good man, and friend, who loves the Lord.
Richard has a powerful testimony. Here’s an excerpt:
The most important thing the Lord continues to teach me through my recovery process is that authentic Christian faith is not about law, works, flesh or self-effort but about having a personal love relationship with God. In Matthew 22 Jesus was asked, “Which commandment in the law is the greatest?” His answer: “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.” This passage has become my life’s Scripture.
The other vital and life-changing truth the Lord continues to teach me is that I am to embrace and truly believe who God has declared me to be in Christ Jesus. The enemy is out “to steal and to kill and to destroy” (John 10:10). I believe one of his most destructive methods is getting us to a place where we believe his lies about who we are rather than believing the truth of who God says we are in Christ.
I have learned that I am not a homosexual, a fag or a queer. I am not gay, or even ex-gay. I have learned that, in Christ Jesus, I am a righteous son of God—justified, forgiven, holy and blameless, acceptable and accepted, lovable and loved, and a brother to Jesus. This is my true identity.
Please go read the whole testimony. God bless you today!
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I can really relate to the part of Mr. Hollman’s testimony when he mentioned that when he used to go to church, homosexual sins were considered one of the major sins in church. When I used to go to church, when I too was younger, the minister would speak about homosexuality a lot, and I used to think, well what about straight guys having affirming affairs? or having sex before marriage? or whatever? I didn’t want to go to church because I thought the message of sin was sort of biased. Used to think these were a bunch of straight people who didn’t want to mention their own dealings with sin.
There was one young couple in the church who were confused. They had sex before marriage, and they thought it wasn’t a sin because it was oral sex. This is one example of a lack of preaching the bible in a full scale of what the bible states is sinful. Also, the minister spoke about it, he didn’t use names, as if the young couple did something stupid. He said, I told them that they sinned, end of story. Everyone’s reaction in the church was eye rolling, and a reaction like, oh brother, how silly the couple were. If it were two men in the church, who did the same thing, it would have been expressed much more differently. It would have been considered despicable and deviant behavior. Another thing, sodomy is sodomy whether it involves the opposite sex or the same sex. It is deviant behavior across the board. It would always baffle me how people in church used to point out homosexual sex acts were so perverted, yet if a married couple did the same thing, people were wishy washy about whether it was considered perverted or not. Again, I can relate to Mr. Hollman’s encounter with the church picking and choosing sins, and making some sins more prominent than other sins, sin is sin.
I can really relate to the part of Mr. Hollman’s testimony when he mentioned that when he used to go to church, homosexual sins were considered one of the major sins in church. When I used to go to church, when I too was younger, the minister would speak about homosexuality a lot, and I used to think, well what about straight guys having affirming affairs? or having sex before marriage? or whatever? I didn’t want to go to church because I thought the message of sin was sort of biased. Used to think these were a bunch of straight people who didn’t want to mention their own dealings with sin.
There was one young couple in the church who were confused. They had sex before marriage, and they thought it wasn’t a sin because it was oral sex. This is one example of a lack of preaching the bible in a full scale of what the bible states is sinful. Also, the minister spoke about it, he didn’t use names, as if the young couple did something stupid. He said, I told them that they sinned, end of story. Everyone’s reaction in the church was eye rolling, and a reaction like, oh brother, how silly the couple were. If it were two men in the church, who did the same thing, it would have been expressed much more differently. It would have been considered despicable and deviant behavior. Another thing, sodomy is sodomy whether it involves the opposite sex or the same sex. It is deviant behavior across the board. It would always baffle me how people in church used to point out homosexual sex acts were so perverted, yet if a married couple did the same thing, people were wishy washy about whether it was considered perverted or not. Again, I can relate to Mr. Hollman’s encounter with the church picking and choosing sins, and making some sins more prominent than other sins, sin is sin.
I’m so sorry! This is supposed to be in response to Mr. Hollman’s prodcast, “Grace and Truth for a World Impacted by Homosexuality” I’m terribly sorry I place this in the wrong response section.
I’m so sorry! This is supposed to be in response to Mr. Hollman’s prodcast, “Grace and Truth for a World Impacted by Homosexuality” I’m terribly sorry I place this in the wrong response section.