Songwriter Dennis Jernigan talks about his journey from homosexuality to redemption in the popular Christian song "You Are My All in All."
It was not an easy journey to take, because for the longest time, Jernigan thought that God hated him because of his sexual orientation.
"Any sermon I heard, it was very clear I would go straight to hell. So it was built in me that the sin was already there," he said, according to Charisma News.
Many years later, Jernigan came to the realisation that Jesus is the answer to his problem.
He now wants to encourage members of the gay community who are going through the same ordeal he encountered that they, too, can find redemption.
"I never thought I'd be attracted to a woman, but everything changed because I changed the way I thought and put off thoughts until I didn't think them anymore," Jernigan said.
He is now happily married to a woman who has given him nine children.
According to the songwriter, Romans 12 from the Bible really helped him develop the right mindset about homosexuality.
"I have a Christ-centred worldview. Everything I believe comes from that point," Jernigan shared. "Find out who your Creator says you are, not who you feel you are. If we don't think the way God designed us to think, we're going to latch onto something. What we put into our minds is what we put out. I agree with that, I am brainwashed, you need to be transformed by renewing of your mind."
Jernigan said the church in the U.S. should try to be more engaging in dealing with homosexuals.
"The answers are in the Word of God for how we respond to sin and sinners," said. "We can judge what is right and what is wrong all day long, but we are never to condemn. Jesus basically said to judge what is right, but told those around the woman (in John 8), 'No one condemns you, so neither do I.' That makes it easy to walk in the culture."
