Landmark Baptist study...no pun intended

[Reformed_Rob]

Get it, Baptist, Landmark Baptist?

It must be all those books I’ve been reading on how to be funny!

Keep reading, you say??

Ok, in my Sermon Audio weekly news update, there’s an article about this 4 year study on the effects of Christian counseling to help homosexuals not be homosexual anymore.

This flies in the face of popular belief on the subject. Here are a few excerpts from the article:

– 15 percent reported their conversion was successful and that they had had “substantial reduction” in homosexual attraction and “substantial conversion” to heterosexual attraction. They were categorized as “success: conversion.”

– 23 percent said their conversion was successful and that homosexual attraction was either missing or “present only incidentally or in a way that does not seem to bring about distress.” They were labeled “success: chastity.”

Said Jones, “We hope our research will say to people, 'Slow down. Let’s have a civil dialogue. Let’s talk about people who are making autonomous adult choices about what they do… Let’s give people the opportunity to exercise their religious freedom.”

“…Personally, I have seen more people walk away from homosexuality than I have from drug and alcohol addiction.”

Jones and Yarhouse also said skeptics should not dismiss the research simply because the researchers are Christians. Much research in the field, they noted, is conducted by researchers who are homosexuals and is nonetheless considered reputable.

Yarhouse, professor of psychology at Regent University in Virginia, said** their literary agent tried for 10 months to find a secular publisher but “no one would touch it.**” IVP is a Christian publisher.

Here’s the whole article here, but above are the main parts of it