Comments on: Exodus International to Shut Down and Start Over

By: StraightGrandmother

StraightGrandmother — Wed, 30 May 2018 20:45:54 +0000

In reply to Michael Bussee. ;p

By: William Birch

William Birch — Wed, 30 May 2018 20:45:54 +0000

In reply to Michael Bussee. Indeed! :^)

By: Warren

Warren — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 18:38:41 +0000

Thanks david…You were there too and I have always appreciated your support…

By: david blakeslee

david blakeslee — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 18:34:59 +0000

Warren…this is really great news and validates the path you chose 5 years ago. I so deeply respect your courage and adherence to “all the truth” in moving people on both sides of this debate.

By: Warren

Warren — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 14:38:41 +0000

Thanks david…You were there too and I have always appreciated your support…

By: david blakeslee

david blakeslee — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 14:34:59 +0000

Warren…this is really great news and validates the path you chose 5 years ago. I so deeply respect your courage and adherence to “all the truth” in moving people on both sides of this debate.

By: William Birch

William Birch — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 12:13:38 +0000

In reply to Michael Bussee. Indeed! :^)

By: stephen

stephen — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 11:48:53 +0000

With a new ‘ministry’ (and his qualifications for launching such a thing are… ?) it’s beginning to sound like a product launch.
And let’s just take a moment to remember the kids who killed themselves or ended up on the streets.

By: Tom Van Dyke

Tom Van Dyke — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 10:16:11 +0000

Exodus demonstrates a familiar pattern; A 501(c)3 being run by someone with no business experience running anything. After losing about 200K in 2010 they failed to reduce their budget and lost another 200K in 2011 which put them on the verge of insolvency. About 25% of revenues were derived from conference registrations. I suspect that 2012 left them with negative working capital and net asset value.
Chambers’ “apology” left many unanswered questions and was written like a PR puff piece.
Sounds like he needs a new racket. It’s either that or get a real job.

By: Richard Willmer

Richard Willmer — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 10:05:46 +0000

Brown’s question about how ‘the world’ sees ‘the Church’ is a very apposite one, but I suspect I would draw rather different conclusions from an exploration of that question than would he.
The fact is that, in a number of places, ‘homosexuality’ (something that is often differently understood by different people) is a ‘hot political issue’, and the Church should not IMO get involved with it ‘as an issue’ (Jesus never mentioned it as such), but rather always seek to minister as best she may to people ‘where they are’. What we are now witnessing are splits in the Church as a result of ‘political stances’ being taken.
Where I think Chambers is getting it so RIGHT is that he seems to be saying that he understands that embracing ‘pat answers’ (“all a gay [or straight, or bisexual, or ‘closeted’, or whatever] person must do is XYZ and things will be hunky-dory”) to complex issues is not the way forward. I’m sure that I, and others, will in the future find matters of detail on which he and I (and others) disagree. But that of itself doesn’t matter; what matters is ‘process’ and dialogue. None of us has a monopoly on the truth.