...unbelief may be the result of a number of factors, but the primary one I see with [homosexually-oriented] Christians is that their long-standing struggle with homosexual tendencies is never submitted to anyone but God. Shame and fear compel them into their prayer closets; the release in prayer alone is found to be inadequate; and eventually they burst out of their "closeted" struggle and engage homosexually, certain God cannot change them.
What has been entirely bypassed is God's healing as mediated through His body, the church, where the many gifts of the Spirit and aptitudes of various personalities can converge to provide the help God has for the strugglers. Submission to Jesus needs to occur not only in personal prayer, but also in prayer, support and counsel as mediated through His body.
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