OKLAHOMA CITY, April 3, 2018 /Christian Newswire/ -- "The level of hatred and bullying is not like anything we've seen," says Stephen Black, who lived as a gay man for 8 years, over 35 years ago, and now Executive Director of First Stone Ministries is in the crosshairs of gay activists.
Black is the author of a ground-breaking book that reveals that 70-percent of people who want freedom from a destructive same-sex lifestyle find it. In Freedom Realized Black and his colleagues examined 25 years of case files and found incontrovertible evidence that people can and do change.
On April 6, First Stone Ministries (firststone.org) is hosting a public screening of the documentary film, Tranzformed: Finding Peace with Your God-Given Gender (tranzformed.org/). "This documentary is about 15 people who were unhappy as homosexuals and transgendered and wanted more in their relationship with Jesus Christ," says Black. Gay activists have already sent death threats to a Michigan pastor and his family and are now setting their sights on Black.
Gay advocate and protestor, Sara Cunningham, vowed to close First Stone Ministries (she appealed for a $25,000 grant from Starbucks for her mission). Her goal is to mobilize and eliminate any mention of the possibility of change, even if people want it and even if it means a transformed life. "To agree to disagree on this issue and this type of ministry is no longer acceptable," says Cunningham. But Black sees it differently, "In the last ten years, there has been an increasing attack on the gospel-centered message of freedom from homosexuality." Activists are intent on shutting down any counseling that leads to new life in Christ and freedom from homosexuality.
Black is the board chairman for the national Restored Hope Network, a coalition of sixty regional agencies that help those who struggle with same-sex attraction. He says the idea of "gay Christianity" is an affront to everything Christ died for and giving people hope is what we should be about as sincere Christians, not just enabling them to stay stuck in a harmful lifestyle. "Freedom from homosexuality comes only through a new life of absolute surrender and a complete dependence on Jesus Christ," says Black
#1: misterwhite To: redleghunter (#0)
That's like walking up to a community bulletin board, seeing an ad for guitar lessons, then ripping it down screaming, "I don't want guitar lessons!"
misterwhite posted on 2018-04-11 14:25:18 Reply Private Reply
#2: Liberator To: misterwhite (#1)
EXCELLENT analogy! HA!
Liberator posted on 2018-04-11 15:28:09 Reply Private Reply
#3: Liberator To: redleghunter (#0)
And once again -- the primary destroyers of life and liberty are...INSANE LEFTIST WOMEN. (and militant homosexuals.)
Liberator posted on 2018-04-11 15:29:34 Reply Private Reply
#4: misterwhite To: Liberator (#2)
misterwhite posted on 2018-04-11 17:09:50 Reply Private Reply
#5: paraclete To: redleghunter (#0)
Yes, faith in Jesus is a remedy for all of society's ills, but it is a message that no one, particularly gays want to hear.
Jesus came to redeem us because we were unable to get the job done ourselves.
Buying into this argument will probably mean I'm buying into a fight and I expect criticism but I do know the reality as the words "Jesus is the answer, he is the way, the truth and the life" keeps playing over and over in my head. Try it sometime
paraclete posted on 2018-04-11 23:30:59 Reply Private Reply