STEPHEN BLACK
“I began to pursue change through counseling and getting help with emotional healing. A year and a half later, I met my wife. We have now been married for 37 years.”
I was molested as a six-year-old, and again at age 10. I was bullied a lot and got beaten up. By the time I was in junior high, everyone was calling me gay, and I believed it. I was deeply depressed by eighth grade and had an older guy tell me he wanted to “show me the ropes” of the homosexual community.
For the next eight years, I lived in that community and had relationships with a number of very wealthy and powerful men. I was a boy toy.
I did have a couple of significant gay relationships, but by the end of them, I became very disillusioned. Then my little brother died, and his death caused me to re-evaluate my life and my beliefs. For a year and a half, I wrestled with what I believed, and then I gave my life to Jesus. I told God that if He would change me, I was willing to change.
I began to pursue change through counseling and getting help with emotional healing. A year and a half later, I met my wife. We have now been married for 37 years. We have three children and four grandchildren.
For the first 10 years after I decided I wanted to change, my attraction to men was fading away. These last 15 years, I stopped experiencing same-sex attraction altogether.
Coram Deo Ministries: www.stephenblack.org, www.freedomrealized.org
