Page 80 - Push Back

The entire world is set upon making the homosexual feel comfortable about his/her behavior.
The influence of society is exerting tremendous force to assure homosexuals that they need not
experience any shame or guilt at their behavior. Instead, they are told to celebrate their immoral
choices and lifestyle. This is what the gay pride parades are about. These debauched spectacles
are an opportunity for men and women who are practicing deviant sexual behavior to affirm to
themselves and others that they are rejecting guilt and shame and replacing it with pride.

The church must hold forth the truth. They must tell those who practice sin that they are sinners.
Those who are light must expose the darkness. Sin must be made to appear exceedingly sinful
that men and women might repent. The attitude manifested by the modern “seeker sensitive”
church is to offend no one. Rather than being a channel of the Holy Spirit to convict the world of
sin, the church has adopted the pattern of modern psychiatry by urging its members to avoid
moralizing, and to affirm all people no matter how sick, or depraved their behavior and thoughts
might be.

On the day of Pentecost, when the Holy Spirit was given to the church, Peter spoke to those
gathered in Jerusalem for the feast. With the power of the Spirit guiding him, Peter confronted
the crowds with their sins. He told them that Yahweh had sent His Son, the promised Messiah,
and that the Jews had crucified Him. The blood of the Son of God was upon their hands. When
Peter spoke, we are told that those listening were “pierced to the heart.” They fell under
conviction and cried out, “What must we do?”

This should be the response of sinners in the world when they meet the presence of the Holy
Spirit inside of the child of God. They should be stricken with conviction in order that we might
point them to Jesus Christ/Yahshua the Messiah, who is the Savior of all mankind. The Son of
God is the Savior of the homosexual, even as He is the Savior of the adulterer, the liar, or the
thief. It serves no beneficial purpose to tell the homosexual that he/she is the way they are
because their parents failed them, or some past experience traumatized them, predisposing them
to embrace a sinful lifestyle. Sinners need to feel the weight of the responsibility for their choices
and actions that they might cry out to God in repentance and be healed.

When Alan Chambers announced that he was ending his work among homosexuals, he
apologized for laying the blame for homosexuality on parents. In blaming parents, he had been
following the guidelines of the APA prior to 1973. It is little wonder that he met with so little
success in the years he counseled homosexual men and women, for he was employing humanistic