Andrew Comiskey

Andrew Comiskey (born January 13, 1958 ) is an American theologian. He is the founder of Desert Stream Ministries , an American organization dedicated to trying to lead homosexuals out of their sexual predisposition into heterosexuality .

Life

Comiskey grew up in the Los Angeles metropolitan area . His family belonged to the Mainline Church , the moderate Protestant Church. With puberty he developed his homosexual tendency. In high school he went to gay discos in Hollywood . After graduating, he moved from home and lived with a friend in a gay neighborhood in Long Beach .

After two of his older brothers became evangelical Christians , Comiskey began to be more interested in the Christian faith. In November 1976 he decided to live as an Evangelical Christian. Then he moved back to his parents. He experienced the tension between the church's claim or his now accepted belief not to live his homosexuality and, on the other hand, his sexual feelings and needs as unbearable. Comiskey decided to continue to follow the chosen religious orientation.

Comiskey first studied English and French at the University of California in Los Angeles. During that time, 1979, he joined a local church where he was often assigned to counseling lesbians and gays. At the suggestion of the elders of his community, he founded and led an ex-gay group in which homosexuals are supposed to change their sexual orientation. Comiskey then studied theology at Fuller Theological Seminary , where he graduated with a Master of Divinity . The Vineyard Movement ordained him a pastor in 1981.

As a result of his work in his ex-gay group, Comiskey founded the Desert Stream Ministries organization in 1980 , which pursues a similar objective. In the following years he also wrote books for the ex-gay movement , which over time he became a more well-known protagonist in the United States. For a while he was President of Exodus International , a US umbrella organization of ex-gay organizations.

2003 Comiskey left the Vineyard movement and worked in the International House of Prayer of Mike Bickle in Kansas City (Missouri) with.

Andrew Comiskey has been married to his wife, Annette, since 1980, whom he met as a student at the University of California. They have four children together.

Comiskey stated that he still sometimes struggles with his previous sexual desires, but sees himself as "cured" of his "sexual brokenness". The "healing" is however "a long and not easy process".

Publications

• Pursuing Sexual Wholeness: How Jesus Heals the Homosexual , Charisma House 1989, ISBN 0884192598 (Engl.)
• Liberated sexuality. Healing and maturing of one's own sexual identity. Help for pastors and counselors , 1993, ISBN 3925352880
  • Same as a book and workbook: ISBN 3894900253
• Liberated sexuality. Help for people with homosexual sentiments, pastors and counselors , 1997, ISBN 3894901896
• Strength in Weakness: Overcoming Sexual and Relational Brokenness , InterVarsity Press 2003, ISBN 0830823689 (English)

Web links

• Homepage Desert Stream Ministries (English) with several articles by Comiskey

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Media Spotlights for February 27, 2004 ( Memento of December 9, 2004 on the Internet Archive ) , Exodus International , as of December 9, 2004, on Archive.org
2. ↑ Kim Byham: "Ex-Gays" invade church of England - but without Careys's blessing ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , in: The Voice of Integrity, Winter 1992, Integrity Inc.  
3. ↑ Life & Times Transcript 05/13/04 ( Memento of the original dated September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , kcet.org, May 13, 2004