Thank you for your website.  I have been reading it today, and I appreciate your thoughtfulness and logic in rightly dividing the word of truth!

I have been gay all my life (of course), but am just now able to acknowledge this...even to myself.  I grew up in conservative Christianity.  I almost got married a few years ago, but God protected me from making a tragic mistake and hurting a girl that I love dearly.  (He's so good!)

I have just recently taken over as pastor of a small church in my town, and I know that this issue is one that I will have to address someday.  Based on history of Christianity, I expect ostracism...to an extent, but even now, I am praying for God's Spirit to do a work in the hearts of those I love to prepare them for the time when I come out.

I am so grateful to Him for the work He did in me...showing me that I'm ok the way I am and He created me from the mother's womb to be who I am.  Just this last year, I began to truly seek to understand what God's Word does say about homosexuality.  I was shocked to discover that what it said was not what I'd been told all my life. 

What is even more sad, is that I wonder what other untruths are perpetuated through the Church to the detriment of all the Body because of a lack of knowledge.  Hosea says "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge."  What a prophecy.  I cry inside saying, "my people (gay Christians) are destroyed for lack of knowledge."  I grieve for the young christians who are like me, living with a disdain for themselves because of who they are!

When I began to truly seek God, he blessed me by drawing near to me and showing me His heart for me...and all gay people.  That's what changed my heart.  It was an act of God on my behalf...He taught me His love in a personal way.  I'll never be the same.

So...all that to say a deeply heart-felt, "Thanks!"  I encourage you to keep up your website...there are those of us out here searching for the truth of God's Word.  You have been a light set upon a hill that can't be hid!  I intend to use the content of your website when the time comes for me to come out to those I love.

Again thanks from my heart!
God has blessed you richly.  Be encouraged!

A brother in Christ,