Hear How This Ex-Gay Pastor Found Freedom in Christ on the New Love Questions Podcast
After pursuing an LGBT lifestyle that left him empty, Dorian experienced a supernatural encounter with Jesus that sparked a journey of faith, healing and freedom. Hear his powerful story on the brand new Love Questions Podcast.
Dorian was blindsided by same-sex attraction as a teen. After hiding porn use and gay relationships from his conservative ethnic family, he embraced his new “identity”, stepped into Sydney’s gay scene, and left nothing off-limits.
But the lifestyle left him feeling empty and disillusioned. Eventually, he sought Jesus in earnest, praying, “God, I just want to know the truth.”
One night, alone in his pitch-black bedroom, Dorian watched as a candle flickered into flame and then shot beams of light into his chest. In this supernatural, unexplainable encounter, Jesus, the light of the world, pierced his heart. Dorian’s journey to freedom in Christ had begun.
Today, Dorian is a lawyer, a pastor, a husband, and a father of four. He shares his incredible story with Paul “PJ” Bedwell in the pilot episode of the Love Questions Podcast.
PJ is a good friend of the Canberra Declaration, and to celebrate his latest endeavour, we’re hosting a Prayer Launch for the new podcast — and you are warmly invited.
Read on for details of the launch — but also be sure to check out PJ’s gripping interview with Dorian, below.
Listen to Dorian Share Live on Zoom!
Our launch for the Love Questions Podcast is taking place this Monday 18th August at 8pm (AEST) — and our special guests for the evening are none other than PJ and Dorian!
PJ is well known to many at the Canberra Declaration for his leadership in other key evangelism projects. A former doctor and now a full-time evangelist, Jesus follower and truth-teller, PJ has a heart for young Australians who experience confusion and pain around their sexuality and identity.
PJ began the Love Questions Podcast as a way for people to share their own stories about the joy and freedom they have found in following Jesus. Whilst so-called “conversion therapy” bans have made sharing people like Dorian’s stories effectively illegal throughout much of Australia, PJ believes that everyone should be free to live out their own story, even if it doesn’t line up with the mandated narrative.
The Canberra Declaration is 100% in support of PJ’s latest project, so we want to bless it, pray for him, and get the word out. So please join us on Monday 18th August at 8pm (AEST) for the Prayer Launch of the Love Questions Podcast.
The Love Questions Podcast website is now live. Check it out below:
Countering ‘Conversion Therapy’ Bans With Hope
As Dorian shared in the interview with PJ, his healing journey was at times painful. And it’s that very pain that Australian governments are now labelling “harm” to stop pastors and parents from helping young people find freedom from unwanted attractions.
The Canberra Declaration has spoken out against these terrible laws. But even if the laws don’t change, hearts still can — because Jesus is King. We believe Jesus will powerfully use this podcast to transform the hearts of many young Australians.
Dorian also spoke about the reasons young people get caught up in the LGBT lifestyle — including father wounds, domineering mothers, and sexual abuse. He also believes pornography can play a big role in cementing a young person’s naive curiosity into an “identity”.
Some of these factors loomed large in Dorian’s journey. He also tells PJ about a research project he undertook while at university, in which every gay friend he interviewed cited the very same influences.
These days, it’s highly taboo to suggest the gay lifestyle is caused by environmental factors like parenting, porn or abuse. But the Love Questions Podcast does not shy from speaking the truth — which is another reason we’re so excited to support it.
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Jesus surrounded himself with 12 men all the time. You’re telling me wasn’t a little bit gay? And if I’m made in gods image, doesn’t that mean god is a little gay too?
Hello Fuchia.
For your consideration: If the Bible is the truth, and it is (John 17 v 17; Colossians 1 v 5; 1 Thessalonians 2 v 13) then being gay is sin (1 Corinthians 6 v 9-10).
Jesus is God (John 1 v 1) and there is no sin in God (1 John 1 v 5).
This makes your proposition an opinion only, and not founded on truth.
The good news is that gays can become clean (1 Corinthians 6 v 11).
To counteract a bunch of heresies regarding human sexuality and God’s perspective we Aussies came up with this 225 word creed. The theological/scriptural basis of the creed is well explained in the Resources/Explanatory Guide. We must base our views on God’s word, not current social ‘norms’. The creed is a very positive statement.
The Australian Creed for Sexual Integrity – https://australiancreed.org/
We invite people of faith in Australia and around the world to make a stand for sexual integrity and sign the creed.
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We believe in one God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, who designed sex as part of His loving plan for humanity, and whose will for sexual integrity is clearly revealed in Holy Scripture.
We believe God created each person in His image as male or female, and any person’s attempt to deny or change this distorts God’s good design.
We believe God blesses sexual intimacy solely between a man and a woman within the holy covenant of marriage, a life-giving mystery that reflects Christ’s love for His church.
We believe God calls a husband and wife to be fruitful and multiply, that every life is sacred, and that children are precious to God and must be protected from sexualisation.
We believe God calls all people to the joy of living a chaste life, by celibacy in singleness and faithfulness in marriage, and that His commands are given for the common good.
We believe sexual activities outside these bounds are sins which grieve God’s heart, injure others, and enslave people to idolatry.
We believe our bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, that Christ calls and empowers us to repent from all sin, including sexual sin, that His mercy abounds to forgive and restore, and that by living with sexual integrity we glorify God and humbly embrace His wise and loving plan for human life.
Amen.
A Christian view on LBGTQI+ life …
God created us will with sexual desires, we need to deal with that regardless of who we are attracted to.
I’m attracted to women, and if a pretty girl walks into the room I will notice. Nothing wrong with that, it is how God made me. It only becomes an issue if I take things further in my mind and/or actions; then it becomes lust or more.
The Bible doesn’t discuss gay feelings, but it does discuss gay sex. There are only a handful of passages which mention same-gender sexual relationships, and all of them are negative.
Lets back off and look at human sexuality as God intended and created us for.
The ideal is a marriage of a man and a woman committed for life with a satisfying relationship including sexual intimacy. The path to marriage is Godly courtship and betrothal.
Anything less than this is likely to be sin.
Some would say we can’t control falling in love (and more often than not lust), but this is not the issue… the real issue to committing to Godly marriage and family.
So being same sex attracted or not is not the real issue. The real issue is aligning your fleshly desires with God’s truth. This is regardless of who you feel you are attracted to.
Eph 4:28 Anyone who has been stealing must steal no longer, but must work, doing something useful with their own hands, that they may have something to share with those in need.
If we truly understand sin (any sin) we see that our self-life / self-will / selfishness is the core issue. Ref: Isaiah 53:6 All we like sheep have gone astray; We have turned, every one, to his own way; And the LORD has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.
We cannot argue away from the truth of the word or that fact the God is the absolute moral ruler of the universe. Simply, regardless of who we feel attracted to it is how we think and act that matters, and if we sin we need to repent.
Just because a person struggles with same-sex desire doesn’t mean God made them gay, any more than a person struggling with anger means God made them a murderer. You have a choice about what you do with every temptation.
Why does there seem to be such focus on this sin and not so much other sins?
Because it is blatantly being thrown in societies face and attempted to be imposed on the Church and Christian life and values.
The consequences are the worst possible, i.e. eternal separation from God.
Hence calling for repentance in grace is the primary loving thing we can do.
We do not celebrate, accept, or endorse the sinful life choices of the LGBT? community. We love the people and tolerate their choices.
In the end homosexuals, trans-genders, etc. are no different to any other of us sinners. Don’t make it a special case, we all need to turn from our sin and repent.
Trans-gender can be many things, eg. it can be lust/perversion, or and expression of self hatred, or mental illness. It is complex, but the outworking is from denying what God made is good, and that is where it is a sin.
99.9% of transsexuals I see (via outreach in the sex industry) is just perverted lust.
For so called trans children – it is being forced on them for grooming purposes – and that makes me angry because it is perverted child abuse.
** Same sex marriage is an outworking of sin, rebellion against God, and ignoring God’s clear word. **
That said, Being Christian is essentially being libertarian. We allow people to do what they want (which has consequences), we pray you change your path and I’ll pray for you and help you, but it’s your right to choose your path and do your thing. Most Christians have gay friends, it’s rarely the Christians that push people away. It’s just trendy to call certain groups bigots right now.
As for gay marriage or pronouns, Christians don’t care if you marry, we care if you demand a Christian minister to marry you against their beliefs and likewise we care if someone demands we go against our beliefs in reference to recognising you trying to be a gender you are not. Still basically you do you, we’ll love you still and tolerate your right to do you, but we can’t go against our beliefs to accommodate or celebrate you.
Likewise, a Christian school or business must be able to decide if people’s values align and employ or provide a specific service. E.g. if I’m a cake maker, I will sell you a cake (generic), but not decorate it to affirm your choices as this forces my speech.
On the question of conversion therapy: can gay people be converted to normal people?
Wrong question due to a wrong premise!
The real question is: Can we via repentance and renewing of the mind come to be who God created to be?
Answer: YES !!!
And I have seen it happen many times. I.e. a person living a homosexual lifestyle coming to being fully heterosexual, married, with children!
The wrong premise is that gays are abnormal, rather than just normal sinners like all of us!
Once we understand that conversion therapy is pointless. We really underestimate the power of redemption in Christ.
Most importantly, marriage in the Bible is a portrait of Christ and His church, which is His bride. The perverted agenda of the world seeks to destroy the image of God and the church. We do need to speak the truth on this issue.
“ One night, alone in his pitch-black bedroom, Dorian watched as a candle flickered into flame and then shot beams of light into his chest. In this supernatural, unexplainable encounter, Jesus, the light of the world, pierced his heart. Dorian’s journey to freedom in Christ had begun.”
I just want to add to at God showed Noah a rainbow after the flood, which means God must be okay with the gays. All this culture war nonsense you’re peddling Kurt is beneath contempt.
Praise God. God can heal you anywhere you hurt.
Peace with God is so precious.
There are many men like Dorian who report the gay sexual lifestyle was destructive and made them feel miserable.
See Beckett Cook videos: https://www.youtube.com/c/BecketCook
Ian,
God is omnipotent – doesn’t that mean that God is also gay, and free of sin? Is that not in his power?
Let the Bible speak for itself on marriage, sexuality, and the gay agenda etc.
Romans 1:26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. 27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error. 28 Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done.
Matthew 5:28 But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
[Note: being a ‘non practising’ homosexual is not valid, you need to repent and come to Godly sexuality]
Jude 1:5 Though you already know all this, I want to remind you that the Lord at one time delivered his people out of Egypt, but later destroyed those who did not believe. 6 And the angels who did not keep their positions of authority but abandoned their proper dwelling—these he has kept in darkness, bound with everlasting chains for judgement on the great Day. 7 In a similar way, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding towns gave themselves up to sexual immorality and perversion. They serve as an example of those who suffer the punishment of eternal fire. 8 In the very same way, on the strength of their dreams these ungodly people pollute their own bodies, reject authority and heap abuse on celestial beings.
1 Tim 1:8 We know that the law is good if one uses it properly. 9 We also know that the law is made not for the righteous but for lawbreakers and rebels, the ungodly and sinful, the unholy and irreligious, for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers, 10 for the sexually immoral, for those practising homosexuality, for slave traders and liars and perjurers—and for whatever else is contrary to the sound doctrine 11 that conforms to the gospel concerning the glory of the blessed God, which he entrusted to me.
Mark 10:6 “But at the beginning of creation God ‘made them male and female.’ 7 ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, 8 and the two will become one flesh.’So they are no longer two, but one flesh. 9 Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”
Isaiah 3:9 The look on their countenance witnesses against them, And they declare their sin as Sodom; They do not hide it. Woe to their soul! For they have brought evil upon themselves.
Leviticus 18:22 You shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female; it is an abomination.
Leviticus 20:13 If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination. They shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be upon them.
1 Corinthian 6:9 Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, 10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God.
Genesis 2:22 Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man. 23 The man said, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.” 24 That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.
Genesis 1:27 So God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He him; male and female created He them.
Matthew 19:4 “Haven’t you read,” he (Jesus) replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’ 5 and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’? 6 So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”
Hebrews 13:4 Marriage should be honoured by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral.
Ephesians 5:22 Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. 24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. 25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her 26 to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, 27 and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. 28 In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29 After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church— 30 for we are members of his body. 31 “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.” 32 This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church. 33 However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
Kym,
Your quote from genesis is perfect, God created me in his own image – which means he’s gay (or at the very least queer). Everything else you quoted is immaterial (though I do love someone using Pascal’s wager – I can’t think of a more convincing argument than “but the consequences of being wrong, however small, are so much more severe”).
Tell me – are you as adamant in preventing people from getting tattoos? Or eating shellfish? Or wearing polyester? Or sitting on a couch that a woman had her period on? Or about fig trees that don’t bear fruit? I’m going to guess no?
Ex-gays are inherently hateful because they exist from a position of condescension. They aren’t full of love – they convince others to hate themselves because of a 2000 year old book that is inconsistently applied to modern day, and whose passages are cherry picked to justify pre-existing biases.
I’ll wrap up by saying this the same god who slaughtered countless innocent lives (taking the first born sons of Egypt), and who sent a bear after children for making fun of a bald man. Is that really the god you want to spend eternity with?
Answers:
1. God created me in his own image – which means he’s gay
No! Your sin has perverted God’s creation (FYI all of us are sinners, this applies to us all).
2. Tattoos? shellfish? etc.
You fail to understand the new covenant and the issues specifically with Mosaic law.
3. Ex-gays are inherently hateful
Absolutely the opposite, they want to see people set free from damning sin (all sin).
4. god who slaughtered countless innocent lives
Your framework is wrong. God is loving, holy, and just.
[Side note: ‘love is love’ is a wrong understanding. Love is holy and righteous, you cannot love without holiness and righteousness, you cannot be holy or righteous without love.]
a) Not one person that ends up in the eternal lake of fire on judgement day will be able to say ‘not fair’ or ‘I don’t deserve to be here’.
b) And those the end up in eternity with the Lord will be able to say ‘I am here because of God’s love, mercy and grace’.
Your choice!
Thank you, PJ, for your ministry to help find and rescue lost sheep. May God guide every step of the journey and may many be plucked out of the painful circumstances and blind alleys. Thank you to Dorian also for sharing his journey of coming out of lostness.
The findings highlight : “… the reasons young people get caught up in the LGBT lifestyle — include father wounds, domineering mothers, and sexual abuse. “
May God have mercy on those who suffer these things and re direct their paths so they find Him as their helper and loving Father.
Another lure found was pornography- “ pornography can play a big role in cementing a young person’s naive curiosity into an “identity”
These comments show us how young men are lured into a pathway of same sex attraction and are very helpful for prayer purposes. They show what sort of backgrounds Satan is using to lure young boys (or girls) into wrong pathways that are harmful to their soul. (not to mention our education system that is teaching children to question their gender at a very young age) …
We need to pray God reduces all gateways to these ‘lures’ and to silence the ones promoting wrong materials (often in order to make money or to lead young boys astray) and we need to pray God will open the eyes and prick the consciences of our politicians who are enforcing a spiritually ‘warped’ curriculum that can harm a child and make them question their God given identity.
Re this comment from Fuchia:
“Ex-gays are inherently hateful because they exist from a position of condescension. They aren’t full of love – they convince others to hate themselves because of a 2000 year old book that is inconsistently applied to modern day, and whose passages are cherry picked to justify pre-existing biases.”
I sensed no hate from Dorian except hate for sin such as gay sex.
And reducing yourself to sexual feelings (“hate themsleves”) is no way for anyone to live, according to the Bible. The life of man is to know and love God. Human life is defined by the call to know and love God; it is not defined by our sexual desires or impulses.