This is the story of a man who experienced attractions toward other men from a young age, found football, found God, found the Air Force (and excelled), and as a ministry leader came to grips with his same-gender attractions–now as a married-to-a-woman man.

God helped this man, Mike Rosebush, remove shame about his attractions, but people and circumstances placed him in conversion therapy. A major part of conversion therapy is seeking to make people change from gay to straight. It did not work.

However, as a licensed psychologist, Mike found himself in a position of counseling others who had a similar story. Mike had a choice: Follow the script he believed was unhelpful and unbiblical (to idolize sexual attractions as ultimate by making orientation change the primary goal), or find another way. He found another way: the path of sanctification and the path of daily surrender.

Hear more of Mike’s journey and decision, and his exhortation to pastors and all Christians seeking to engage the LGBT+ conversation biblically and faithfully on today’s episode.

Highlights: 
​”Dear Friend … We who have same-sex attraction, who are Evangelical, who devote our life to celibacy, and who absolutely believe everything in your orthodoxy, we are not your enemy.”
–Mike Rosebush

​”I was not about to put those [clients] through what I was put through . . . My perspective is: ‘It’s not going to leave. We don’t know how it got into us. It’s there. Let’s live well with it’… [And] I absolutely knew and still know that the Trinity likes me and loves me–just as I am–even with these attractions.”
–Mike Rosebush
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Do the Next Thing:
Follow Mike on Facebook and check him out on his website
We mention a “The Shack” experience
We also mention a Barna Study about pastors and leaders engaging the LGBT+ conversation
We refer to Mike’s letter he wrote to pastors. You can find it here.
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Question of the Week for Next Week:
How do you best receive constructive feedback/growth-pointing-out about your personal life? (Where? What tone? In person? Email? Internet?) How close does this person need to be to your heart? (Random person online? New small group member? Any family member? Closest friend/spouse?)