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Topics: Parent Issues, Homosexuality, Bipolar, Boundaries, Marriage, Depression.
Hosts: Steve Arterburn, Dr. John Townsend, Milan Yerkovich
Caller Questions:
- I read Walking Into Walls and realized my mom was smothering me.
- How do I communicate with three gays in my life?
- We have a friend staying with us who might be suicidal. How do I kick him out?
- Is it time to take my baby and leave my rude husband?
- How do I look for a healthy relationship if it has never been modeled to me?
- I am a master at disguising being depressed. I need help.
Suggested Resources:
How to Be a Best Friend Forever
How We Love
Link to New Life Live: March 8, 2012
March 8, 2012 at 10:29 am
Guys, I thought you handled the caller’s uncertainty about how to deal with the gay people in her life, but I must point out that no one ‘chooses’ to ‘be gay’. They are born that way & the only choice they make is how to live their lives as normal gay folks.Milan is full of baloney when he claims that other people ‘tell’ you you’re gay. No way. And Anne Heche is bi, what is so difficult to understand about that?
Loved the way John took charge of the situation with the man who is housing the bipolar person. No fooling around with the possible danger from the bipolar person. Very good.
March 8, 2012 at 2:49 pm
God does not create people to be gay. In His Word it is a sin, so why would he create someone to be gay. It’s a choice. God created man and woman for a reason.
March 8, 2012 at 1:29 pm
Hey folks, I am a regular listener. Dr. John is your book Leadership Beyond Reason still available. I am using it and in some of my ministry seminars. I lead a ministry known as “From the Hand of a Disciple”. Thanks for all that you folks do.
Tom Hester
March 12, 2012 at 12:27 pm
Great point, Barb! There is no need for any ‘gay debate’. The Bible is quite clear, and as such, it does not matter what you think, I think, my neighbor thinks, or my pastor thinks. The Word says to “flee”. So whether someone was ‘born’ gay, molested and became gay, met a gay and became one, whatever the genesis we are to “flee”.
Even though our society wants to debate homosexuality and stir the pot, isn’t it a blessing that God relieves us believers of the burden of needing to figure it out whether ir’s right or wrong? We don’t have to because it is written plainly in the Word. (And yes, there are gay Christians– we are ALL sinners and are saved through Christ, regardless of our sins.)