Sight Ministry Spring Support Group Details

The Sight Ministry spring semester support groups/classes will begin during the second week of February.  If you are interested in getting involved OR if you know someone who might be interested please reply or call me and we can talk about the details.  Please pass this information forward to your contacts.  You never know who might be interested is our ministry.

Any individual who personally battles against same-sex attraction (SSA) issues and wants to be involved in this part of Sight Ministry must first make an initial appointment with me.  A prerequisite for continuing in the group process is to go through the book study, “Lifetime Guarantee.” 

Any spouse of someone who battles against SSA issues or any family member or friend who has a loved one who battles against SSA issues must also set up an initial appointment with me before they can become eligible to participate in our group process.

The following is a brief description of our current groups:

Family & Friends:  This group is open to anyone who has a family member or friend who has a loved one who is either embracing a gay identity or is battling against SSA issues.

Women’s Group:  This group is open ONLY to women who are battling against SSA issues and who have graduated from Lifetime Guarantee.

Lifetime Guarantee:  This group is open to anyone who battles against SSA issues and is a pre-requisite for continuing participation in Sight Ministry.  Book:  “Lifetime Guarantee,” by Bill Gillham ($12.00).  Book description:  If you are exhausted in your efforts to fix your SSA issues or to fix other problems in your life this may be a great group experience for you.  It’s not your “problems” that need to be fixed—it’s your life!  The good news is that GOD doesn’t ask you to live your life for Christ, but to let Him live His life through you.  We will help you understand how you have programmed your brain with earthly techniques for satisfying your needs for love and self-esteem and help you to discover the ultimate solution through the exchanged life!  Someone has said, “Your problem is that you don’t really know what your problem is.  What you think is your problem is merely a symptom of your real problem.”  Come and discover what your problem really is and the Ultimate Solution!

Wives:  This group is open to anyone whose husband is gay identified or who battles against SSA issues.

4Streams:  This group is open ONLY to men who battle against SSA issues and who have graduated from Lifetime Guarantee.  Book:  “Not a Fan,” by Kyle Idleman – Book description:  The dictionary defines a fan as “an enthusiastic admirer.”  Fans want to be close enough to Jesus to get all the benefits, but not so close that it requires sacrifice.  Fans may be fine with repeating a prayer, attending church on the weekend, and slapping a Jesus fish on their bumpers.  But is that really the extent of the relationship Jesus wants?  Jesus was never interested in having admirers.  It’s not fans He is looking for.  “Not a Fan” will challenge you to consider what it really means to call yourself a Christian.  With a direct frankness that you’re not likely to hear in Sunday school class, Kyle invites you to take an honest look at your relationship with Jesus.  His call to follow may seem radical to us, but Jesus desires it for every believer.

If you are interested in learning more about Sight Ministry please feel free to contact me.

Richard Holloman

Sight Ministry

PO Box 140808

Nashville, TN  37214

615-509-0782

www.thesightministry.org

The Supremacy of the Gospel over Politics & Defiled Religion: Reaching the Gay Community

We strongly believe that the GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST is THE absolute key in changing the lives of all people regardless of what their sin issues might be.  I’m not referring to the compromised watered down version that is popular today.  I’m talking about the complete, radical, powerful, authentic GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST that was GOD’s plan from the foundation of the world.

Paul said in Romans 1:16:  "For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for IT is the power of GOD for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek." 

Therefore we intentionally choose not to trust in politics or man's agenda to work change from the outside in (behavior modification).  We desire to rest in and trust totally in the authentic, life impacting, power of the Gospel of Jesus that profoundly changes lives from the inside out.

We are challenged by GOD and convicted by HOLY SPIRIT to examine our own personal lives to discover our own sinfulness that falls short of GOD’s glory and that might become a stumbling block to those who are outside of GOD’s family.  We cannot continue to live a life of defiled religion, hypocrisy and compromise.

We are called to yield to the work of HOLY SPIRIT within us as He conforms us to very image of Jesus Christ.  The measure we use that shows us spiritual maturity is the fruit of the Spirit not the good works of a man (Galatians 5:22-23). 

We are so fully convinced this is GOD’s plan we feel compelled to engage the culture around us rather than being offended by it and withdrawing from it.  We believe so strongly that the authentic unadulterated Gospel of Jesus Christ is the power of GOD for salvation that we feel humbled and broken if we become the focus and the causation for others to stumble.  If someone stumbles may Jesus and Jesus alone be the Stone of Stumbling, not us (1 Peter 2:6-8).

Those who are unbelievers are simply living out of their unbelief.  Why would we expect them to act or to behave otherwise?  Politics, defiled religion, works of man, etc., will only divide and create barriers.  But the Gospel of Jesus Christ is GOD's power for total absolute redemption and change.

I battled against this concept for many years because I did not truly believe in the power of The Gospel of Jesus Christ.  I felt I needed to assist GOD in His redemptive work to protect our society by entering into the political arena and by “fighting” to protect moral values.  Now I have found peace and rest as I continue to embrace the truth that GOD doesn’t need me to be His champion of the faith.  He is quite able to take care of that Himself.  That is why He humbled Himself to become a man and to die on a cross.  His resurrection is the proclamation to all people everywhere there is hope, life and freedom through the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  What GOD has accomplished in His redemptive work is far greater & more powerful than anything else to bring radical and lasting change to any person.  And GOD accomplishes His work from the inside out by creating within the redeemed person a new heart (Ezekiel 11:19; Matthew 15:10-20).

As followers of Jesus Christ we hold on to His promise of total absolute redemption and we embrace Jesus’ bold declaration, “. . . and upon this rock (the Gospel of Jesus Christ) I will build My Church; and the very gates of Hades will not overpower it” (Matthew 16:18).  Therefore we know we have been given the “keys of the Kingdom of Heaven” and through the power of GOD Himself, “whatever [we] have bound on earth shall have been bound in Heaven, and whatever [we] loose on earth shall have been loosed in Heaven” (Matthew 16:19).

Do we dare think that politics, humanism, defiled religion, works of man and our weak, powerless programs can match the “GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST?”  “Go therefore and make disciples . . . I AM with you always, even to the end of the age” (Matthew 28:19-20).  “You will receive power when HOLY SPIRIT has come upon you; and you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the remotest part of the earth” (Acts 1:8).

The Mission of Sight Ministry - "How to Change a Gay Man or Woman"

While Christ’s work on the cross, the shedding of His blood, was the only way to settle the problem of guilt, sin, and condemnation, the coming of the promised HOLY SPIRIT was GOD’s way of changing human beings from the inside out.  The law given to Moses had failed on this very point.  It was in itself holy and just, but the problem was the sinful nature within people.  Now HOLY SPIRIT dwelling in the hearts of believers would conquer the age-old dilemma of “I want to be different but can’t.  I know what’s wrong—but I keep doing it anyway.”  This empowerment by HOLY SPIRIT would be the dynamic source throughout time for all who live and labor for Jesus Christ.

[From the book, “Fresh Power,” by Jim Cymbala]

By-the-way, this is the way change comes to any man or woman, regardless of the sin issue, temptations or longings.