The end times are here, and if anyone
still doubts how close we are to the finish line, the ‘U turn’ recently made by
Exodus international should be a clear eye-opener! For 37years, the Exodus International has
been one of the foremost organizations highlighting the unprofitableness of
homosexuality, and offering to help ex-gays live not just a healthy sex-life,
but a holy one. The organization is
famous for its slogan that the opposite of homosexuality is not
heterosexuality, but rather holiness.
Now Exodus international ( current Board
membership, that is), is saying it has been making a mistake all along in
condemning homosexuality, and that homosexuals should just go ahead with their
lifestyle! On his blog, on 19th June,
President of Exodus International, Alan Chambers, profusely apologized to
homosexuals for the past activities of the Organization, and recanting, said
though he still considers the practice of homosexuality as wrong, he has come
to realize there is nothing wrong with having same-sex attraction. Chambers said he was sorry for so many
things. Basically he was sorry and
ashamed of the Gospel. For instance he
said: “I am sorry that when I celebrated a person coming to Christ and
surrendering their sexuality to Him that I callously celebrated the end of
relationships that broke your heart.” In
short, Mr Chambers is apologizing for causing godly sorrows which indeed led to
repentance and positive change in people!
Henceforth, rather than try to help people change their sexual orientation,
Mr Chambers said the new organization they are starting will seek to help
people “manage” it one way or another
In a statement posted on its website,
Exodus International's board of directors said the decision to close the doors
of the ministry came "after a year of dialogue and prayer about the
organization's place in a changing culture." Many observers noted that Exodus
International had been losing big funding partners in recent years, and Mr Alan Chambers had
become increasingly inconsistent and confused.
Speaking on the development, Russel
Moore, president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern
Baptist Convention said: "I think there's a tendency to see Exodus folding
as a parable of Christian capitulation and ethic, that is not what's happening.
Instead what you have is an organization that has some confusion about its
mission and purpose.... What is not happening here, is an evangelical revision
of a biblical sexual ethic." http://articles.latimes.com/2013/jun/21/local/la-me-0621-exodus-international-gays-20130621.
One of the lively comments on the
closing up of Exodus International, as reported by Christianity Today, was from one James Aist. Mr Aist wrote: “My initial withdrawal of support for Exodus
came last year when Chambers embraced a re-worked, gay version of an ancient
heresy called ‘antinomianism.’ The gay version, called the "gay
gospel", holds that one can be a Christian, never turn away from the sin
of homosexual behavior, and still enjoy eternity in heaven with Jesus. Satan is
using the “gay gospel” to get Christians who are homosexual to continue to
practice homosexuality, feel good about it, and end up in hell, rather than
repent of it. Read more about the "gay gospel" at http://rethinkingtheology.com/2012/12/16/the-gay-gospel/ that there are
still hundreds of ministries and therapists who adhere to a Bible-based
approach to providing help for dissatisfied homosexual people. You can link to
them at http://rethinkingtheology.com/2012/07/11/homosexuality-good-news/”
Unfortunately, this turn around by
Exodus is only the latest of key conservative groups caving in to the intense
pressure from by the antichrist’s new world order goons. The other time, it was
Dr James Dobson being forced out of Focus on the Family, largely due to his
unwillingness to soft-pedal on homosexuality ( http://churcharise.blogspot.com/2010/03/james-dobson-forced-out-from-focus-on.html
). To continue with the work God had
called him into, Dr Dobson had to leave the organization he had started and ran
for 33 years to start a brand new one; while the old Focus on the Family turned
into a shadow of itself – chiefly with respect to view on homosexuality and
abortion.
Let nobody think it a child play, the
enormous pressure being asserted by new sexuality people on organizations
opposed to their evil agenda! Months
earlier, some Board members of Exodus International, seeing the handwriting on
the wall as their president began to make ambivalent statements concerning
homosexuality, began to quietly jump
ship. For instance, John Warren the
former treasurer, in resigning on
September 6, 2012 said as sad and
disappointed as he was, he still understood the enormous pressure that brought
down his president. In his words: "I believe that Alan Chambers is a good
man with good intentions. It is his messaging that concerned me recently and
prompted me to resign….Alan is in an extremely difficult position, and I don't
want to disparage him” A few days earlier, Jeff Buchanan also had resigned his position as executive vice
president .
We can identify two major weaknesses
exploited by the enemy to bring down Exodus International. First was its
resolve to use man-made solution, the so-called reparative therapy, as the
principal means of securing deliverance from homosexuality. Other prominent
organizations helping ex-homosexuals who see the problem as more of a spiritual
problem are having far better results than the now defunct Exodus
International. Indeed, according to John
Warren, several other ministries under the Exodus Global Alliance are producing
excellent results in the work in helping ex-homosexuals to exit a destructive lifestyle
The weakness of Exodus’ proffered
solution for dealing with homosexuality, with the resulting failures and
disappointments, contributed to the frustration of Mr Chambers, who in
admitting to the failure of reparative therapy, unfortunately concluded that
there is no hope of (and consequently no need for) dropping the homosexual
lifestyle. He consequently adjusted his theology to fit in this position. Stoking this sad belief was Chamber’s close
interaction and sympathy for Justin
Lee, founder of the Gay Christian Network.
It was on account of Alan Chamber’s comments on Mr Lee, that John Warren felt he had to
resign his Board position on Exodus. In
an interview with Janet Mefferd, Chambers had insisted that Lee, a celibate but
foremost advocate for homosexuality, is a fellow Christ follower, and will be
with him in heaven. An incredulous Janet
Mefferd demanded of Chambers: "If you believe that you have to turn from
your sin and turn to Christ ... how can you simultaneously hold that somebody
who is an unrepentant homosexual can go to heaven?"
In the novel Piercing the Darkness,
Frank Perretti, graphically demonstrated the enormous societal pressure on
American Christians who are forbidden to identify demon possession among
people. Without a correct diagnosis, how
can the appropriate remedy, deliverance in the name of the Lord Jesus, be
applied? The Bible explicitly says that
intense demon possession will characterize the end times, just like it happened
in the days of Noah, when demonic entities came down to copulate with human
beings. Numerous evidences from both victims of homosexuality, desperately
seeking a way out, and the Pastors who ministered to them, make it abundantly
clear that homosexuality falls squarely within the realm of this phenomenon.
Founded in 1976,
Exodus was an umbrella organization which
grew to include over 120 local ministries in the United
States and Canada and over 150 ministries in 17 other countries.[7]
While local affiliated ministries can continue to operate, they cannot use the
Exodus name, according to a statement from the group. http://abcnews.go.com/US/exodus-international-gay-cure-group-leader-shutting-ministry/story?id=19446752
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