I am on day 55 of the Way of Purity Course from Setting Captives Free. I got the book from my accountability partner who is my pastor friend from a local church who got it from someone else. I am borrowing it and answering every question in a separate notebook. The course, while it has helped a lot so far, isn't enough without mentors or a more available accountability partner. and because of this and my minimal time in the Scriptures I am still falling often, though a little ways back I had an entire month of relative freedom.Now I come to try to enroll in the online course and I find Mike Cleveleand has repented of the entire thing and has started Gospel Growth Ministries instead. And I can't seem to connect to it, because of computer errors. Plus I can't afford the required 50.00 donations. If Mike Cleveland sees this review, please contact me at blsohlden@hotmail.com Maybe he can help me, because I've been struggling with impurity from the age of about 12, and it is oh, so hard to get free, though now because of your course, mike, I now pray every morning for deliverance and strength and offer my body a living sacrifice unto God. I tell all who read that fantasy and daydreaming are damaging to the brain and mind and can lead to delusion and impurity. I seem to be in an endless cycle of daydreaming and fantasizing, then self gratification later, then the next day or the next week it starts again, I daydream about different things (or sometimes the same things in different ways), and it leads to impurity. I am 35 and am still thankfully still a virgin. I still believe, thanks to you Mike, that my motive for getting and staying free should be for the glory of God! Although I do look forward to marriage, normal sexual relations, and children (especially children) in the future. My name is Brent and I will not hide the fact that I belong to the Latter day Saints Church of Christ. I follow Jesus Christ, and the prophet of our church is Joseph Frederick Smith, great grandson of the prophet Joseph Smith Jr. My struggles with impurity have been off and on through every phase of my Christian journey. When I first became a Christian 19 years ago today, I stopped for a while, until the day my dad put a TV in my room, then I succumbed. Mike there is still some truth to the radical amputation principle, don't abandon it. Had that TV not been in my room, it might have taken a lot longer time for satan to get to me again. Then, after I was baptized in 2005, I stayed strong for a while, but the computers were down in the basement with me and they tempted me and I gave in. Had the computers not been down there where I slept and could be alone with them, I might have not fell at that time. I feel helpless and hopeless because I just fell last night and I resolved to enroll in the online course but it is impossible to do so at this library, and I cant afford to donate. If you would take the donation requirement off your course, it would help more people to be free and people would give freely what God has purposed in their hearts to give and you would still get funded. Please, Mike, send me an email with advice as to what to do; where to go for help. I think I have to rely entirely on god now, and nothing the world or even Christians offer can help, and my accountability partner is too busy and has too much on his plate to meet with me more than once a week and that only briefly. I live in an apartment in Oak Grove Missouri and I tried sleeping with my clothes on and opening my blinds in my bedroom last night but neither helped; I had already started the cycle off by fantasizing that morning. What I need is mentors, Mike. If you can hook me up with online mentors from Gospel Growth Ministries that would be so excellent. Thank you.
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I have taken four courses from Setting Captives Free and have been asked four times for donations. I have donated when I could but never was I forced to donate or asked conditionally. This is one of the finest organizations I have found. Their web page has served nearly 2 million people nearly 300,000 have signed up yet total revenue is less than 200,000 in 2008. If you want to get more bang for your charity buck donate here. I am totally impressed. All this and they lead you to Jesus also, wow please donate and donate often people need to become free from the bondage of sin.
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