I like this person and his teachings.  Clearly.  In truth had he been the one to save me as a 17 yr old beaten boy hiding in his barn I think he may have still sent me to a church school to protect me but he wouldn’t have then expected me to go on and become a priest in their religion.  I couldn’t tell my savior who wanted that from me why I rejected his strong demand / offer and instead went into the military was that I was gay.  I had accepted it to myself.  I was well versed enough in the acts of it due to my abuse to know that along with my internal emotions about guys vs women that the acts themselves did not repulse me.  Just the way they were forced on me. Remember I had been forced to please females as well as males since I was 3 years old and I understood my attractions were to males.  I was very gay.  Instead I think he would have asked me my goals and I would have had to tell him the mystical parts of the religion I had issues with … but the reason I need to withdraw was I was gay.  If he responded as he did in my comment to him, then I would have stayed in his congregation.  Not believing the magic parts of the religion but the community and acceptance that their god has for those different.   Rev. Ed Trevors admits he doesn’t preach facts, he preaches faith, and much of what he stresses is things as a humanest I can fully endorse. 

I do wonder with his … more violent past if he had found a badly beaten very thin small 17 year old boy who told him he was being abuse if he would have done more than force the parents … well in their mind’s owner of the boy to let him leave.  But again maybe that is my hopes / emotions talking over my understanding of reality.   Hugs