When we talk about the churches or different organizations, I can share some of my experiences

because it's been a journey and I was healed in the assembles of God Church

meaning God put me there, gave me the brother, and my wife and in the small group, you know, life group,

came alongside of me and that was my hospital where they provided a safe environment for me and that's what I want to do with our ministry.

It's provided a space that encourages and comes alongside and

but when it comes to my testimony and the LGBT issue, this is where I've learned what

hirelings are in cowardice is and what itchy ear preaching is and

I'd say that not out of judgment but a concern because when you love your pastor and

you pray for your pastor and then you realize what's going on it's it's shocking.

There's a lot of prayer and fasting that I went through, playically speaking, when I realized that my pastor didn't want, even though one of the pastors on staff is actually ex-gay,

used to be, you know, identified as a homosexual but has been set free of that as well.

And our pastoral counselor, the three of us

put together a Sunday school with the Assembles of God

position paper and the pastor,

senior pastor didn't want us to teach that.

It was too, I mean in my words, it's too controversial.

My understanding is that we were told that we had to have a meeting outside of the church to talk about why we should talk about that in the church.

And so we weren't going to advertise the class, we weren't going to do anything with it.

And that was on the tail end of a lot of what I now know in my opinion is gas lighting. I've been gaslit for a couple of years on why when they film testimonies, you know, of a brother who used to be in, I think, Hell's Angel as an enforcer,

you know, came to Christ and that's a great testimony to share.

And they filmed testimonies and

why I don't get to share my testimony and when we had a series of

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