Clearing a Path
‘And a highway will be there; it will be called the Way of Holiness’ (Is. 35:8).
Most efforts to pursue sexual wholeness are blocked by the media today. Gone are the days when some journalists honestly explored Christians who claimed to have found a way out of gender confusion through Jesus-centered community.
Instead, the press obscures our pathway to chastity with laughable debris—fake charges that we abuse and manipulate, accrue millions, and prayerfully electroshock the ‘gay’ away. It is pure deception, and artless at that.
For example, the Advocate, the oldest and biggest ‘gay’ rag, just slammed our daylong conference in Philadelphia from a month ago; no reporter attended it nor spoke with us about it. Instead, a clueless scribe pieced together some myths about us and the nature of change (dangerous conversionists who put youth at risk for offering them anything other than LGBT confirmations). Apparently, the writer is also a social scientist who invokes unidentified studies as to why any young man who aspires to love a woman rather than try to become her is liable to blow his head off.
I think it works in just the opposite direction. Anyone pursuing chastity is seeking integration—a challenging path indeed, but isn’t any pursuit of wholeness? Aspiring to solidity in one’s identity and relationships takes human effort and extraordinary grace. God’s beauty invites us off the way that once seemed right to us then up a road, slowly. Jesus provides that way, and the path leads to sanity, centeredness, self-respect.
I am not sure what compels most western mouthpieces today to dump pails of garbage on that upward path. Is it as simple as people who don’t want to grow in chastity hating people who do?
France’s version of Living Waters has been under worse assault than what we face in America. Last year, several French reporters infiltrated their ranks and filmed group sessions, violating all rights to privacy. A book just came out there chronicling the exposure, just in time for a meeting between French Living Waters leaders and the French government who will decide in November whether Living Waters will be allowed to exist officially in France.
Tough stuff. Pray for the French team. Like them, we can rejoice in persecution for what is right. And we can grieve for a generation who is being sold a pack of lies about their sexual destinies. Yet we haven’t time to pat ourselves on the back or to weep on our knees. We must rouse ourselves and cry out for the Spirit of God to strengthen us so we can do the good hard work of clarifying Jesus’ Way for every sexual sinner who seeks Him.
It is up to us to clear the way for chastity. The dignity of a generation depends on it. Please join us this Wednesday at 3pm cst. We as a staff will be fasting and praying through Becoming Good News. Let’s become chaste witnesses together.
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