Exodus Freedom Speaker Warns of 'The Gay Gospel'

Hundreds of men and women will be hearing from former homosexuals who found freedom through Jesus Christ when Exodus International opens its 32nd annual Freedom Conference Tuesday in Irvine, Calif.The conference theme is "Revolution: Radically Change Your World," but Alan Chambers, head of Exodus International – the nation's largest evangelical referral ministry on homosexual issues, clarifies that the theme does not imply belief in change from homosexuality that is sudden or complete. Rather, the theme is about calling for change within the evangelical church and how it has typically dealt with the issue of homosexuality.
While the conference expects to draw some 1,000 people to show that change is possible, gay activists and those opposed to the ex-gay movement plan to draw their own crowd nearby at “The Ex-Gay Survivor Conference: Undoing the Damage and Affirming Our Lives Together,” sponsored by www.BeyondExGay.com, Soulforce and the LBGT Resource Center at University of California, Irvine. The conference will feature workshop leaders who will unpack the ex-gay experience and consider both the good and the harm that came out of those experiences. Among the conference participants is Michael Bussee, one of the original founders of the Exodus movement who failed in leaving the homosexual lifestyle and says he is still a practicing Christian.There is a growing movement today to legitimize homosexuality not only in the eyes of the culture but also in the eyes of the church, according to Joe Dallas, a featured speaker at Exodus' Freedom Conference this week.
Seeing a pro-gay theology or "the gay gospel" growing in prominence, Dallas released a book titled The Gay Gospel: How Pro-Gay Advocates Misread the Bible earlier this year to equip the average believer to be able to answer the claims of those who say they are gay and a Christian and believe that's fine with God."There is, in essence, a new gospel being preached which teaches that homosexuality not only is legitimate but is even God-ordained, and that the church which believes homosexuality is wrong needs to change its position," Dallas said in a recent interview with Concerned Women for America.Just as many are struggling with today, Dallas had conflicting desires and values as a Christian and being sexually attracted to men 30 years ago."I wanted to believe that somehow God would condone my homosexuality," he said.While he heard pro-gay interpretations of the Bible, he didn't find them very convincing."I believe that the pro-gay theology ... is a symptom of the problem of people wanting to believe something and then imposing that desire on the Bible. Rather than reading the Bible for what it says, they interpret it for what they want it to mean," Dallas explained in the interview...
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