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OUT OF THE DEPTHS
Psalm 130

Out of the depths, I have cried to You, O Lord;
Lord, hear my voice! Let Your ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications.
If You, Lord, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand?
But there is forgiveness with You, that You may be feared.
I wait for the Lord, my soul waits, and in His word I do hope.
My soul waits for the Lord more than those who watch for the morning;
Yes, more than those who watch for the morning.
O Israel, hope in the Lord; for with the Lord there is mercy,
And with Him is abundant redemption.
And He shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities.

Out of the depths, I have cried to You, O Lord;
Lord, hear my voice! ... Psalm 130

FOURTEEN STEPS
of Homosexuals Anonymous
  1. We admitted that we were powerless over our homosexuality and that our emotional lives were unmanageable.
  2. We came to believe the love of God, who forgave us and accepted us in spite of all that we are and have done.
  3. We learned to see that there was purpose in our suffering, and that our failed lives were under God's control, who is able to bring good out of trouble.
  4. We came to believe that God had already broken the power of homosexuality and that He could therefore restore our true personhood.
  5. We came to perceive that we had accepted a lie about ourselves, an illusion that had trapped us in a false identity.
  6. We learned to claim our true reality that as mankind, we are part of God's heterosexual creation, and that God calls us to rediscover that identity in Him through Jesus Christ as our faith perceives Him.
  7. We resolved to entrust our lives to our loving God and to live by faith, praising Him for our new unseen identity, confident that it would become visible to us in God's good time.
  8. As forgiven people free from condemnation, we made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves, determined to root out fear, hidden hostility, and contempt for the world.
  9. We admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs and humbly asked God to remove our defects of character.
  10. We willingly made direct amends wherever wise and possible to all people we had harmed.
  11. We determined to live no longer in fear of the world, believing that God's victorious control turns all that is against us into our favor, bringing advantage out of sorrow and order out of disorder.
  12. We determined to mature in our relationships with men and women, learning the meaning of a partnership of equals, seeking neither dominance over people nor servile dependency on them.
  13. We sought thorough confident praying, and the wisdom of Scripture for an ongoing growth in our relationship with God and a humble acceptance of His guidance for our lives.
  14. Having had a spiritual awakening, we tried to carry this message to homosexual people with a love that demands nothing and to practice these steps in all our lives' activities, as far as lies within us.

 

This ministry is sponsored by
Sicklerville United Methodist Church
of Sicklerville, New Jersey