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The Broken Image: Restoring Personal Wholeness through Healing Prayer
Presents documented case studies of homosexuals and lesbians who have been reoriented to heterosexuality through applied healing prayer.
178 pages, Kindle Edition
First published September 1, 1995
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Leanne Payne
36 books30 followersMrs. Payne has been active in the ministry of healing prayer for over thirty years. She is the founder and president of Pastoral Care Ministries.
Her books include: Real Presence, The Broken Image, Healing the Homosexual, Crisis in Masculinity, Healing Presence, Restoring the Christian Soul, and Listening Prayer.
She has taught for Wheaton College, in the graduate program in Christian Spirituality at Creighton University, as well as for University of the Nations. She holds both a BA and MA from Wheaton College as well as an MA from the University of Arkansas. Mrs. Payne was also a research fellow at Yale Divinity School.
Her books include: Real Presence, The Broken Image, Healing the Homosexual, Crisis in Masculinity, Healing Presence, Restoring the Christian Soul, and Listening Prayer.
She has taught for Wheaton College, in the graduate program in Christian Spirituality at Creighton University, as well as for University of the Nations. She holds both a BA and MA from Wheaton College as well as an MA from the University of Arkansas. Mrs. Payne was also a research fellow at Yale Divinity School.
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May 17, 2024
A ‘COUNSELING’ APPROACH TO WOMEN (PARTICULARLY LESBIANS)
Leanne Payne (1932-2015) was a research fellow at Yale Divinity School under Henri Nouwen; in 1982 she incorporated Pastoral Care Ministries, which provided pastoral care through prayer and counselling.
She wrote in the Preface to this 1981 book, “As a sexual neurosis, homosexuality is regarded as one of the most complex. As a condition for God to heal, it is (in spite of the widespread belief to the contrary) remarkably simple. This is a book about how to pray for the healing of the problem. The stories in this book were selected as being the most representative among those to whom I minister.’
She states, “In heterosexual relationships, the immature woman often attempts to find her life in her mate, and she thereby posits her identity or well-being in him… She, like any homosexual lover, will eventually find this a futile as well as degrading exercise. As her own dissatisfaction grows, she will increasingly demand what he does not nor should not have to give. Making him a god, she will be unable to bear the fact that he, like all creatures, has feet of clay. She will get in much the same kind of trouble as those involved in homosexual behavior in that she will never find here true identity through sexual intimacy.” “(Pg. 34)
She asserts, “Homosexual behavior is at once sinful and immature. The sinful aspect has to do with the lameness of the human spirit and is healed through confession and absolution of personal sin. The immature aspect is part of the lameness of the soul---that which is to be set straight so that both spirit and soul can grow into freedom.” (Pg. 38)
She suggests, “Often the father’s own self-serving manner of life and immaturity render him unable to affirm his son or daughter. Or it may even be that our permissive society has prematurely freed the son or daughter from the father’s rightful authority. Much of the homosexuality we see today is the harvest sown by the breakup of the American home and the absence of whole and affirming fathers.” (Pg. 58)
She reports that a young man named Mattheew “knows … that there is really no such thing as a ‘homosexual’ person. There are only those who need healing of old rejections and deprivations, deliverance from the wrong kind of self-love and the actions that tissue from it and—along with that—the knowledge of their higher selves in Christ.” (Pg. 63-64)
She recounts, “I have seen instances where a lesbian relationship issues out of what begins as merely a ‘counseling’ situation between one woman and another, and ends as an unholy wedding where each feeds the self-pitying illusion that other lives by. This can happen when the inner loneliness and tactile needs of someone (such as one suffering from infantile deprivation) come into collusion with another’s need to shape, direct, ‘do things to,’ or otherwise control and dominate anther soul.” (Pg. 107)
She argues, “There are instances where lesbian behavior is connected to fear and hatred of the father or of some other man. Out of hatred any and every kind of perversion can come. Unhealed schisms, whether between the sexes, the races, classes of workers, rich and poor, young and old, always breed hatred and therefore always form breeding grounds for various perversions.” (Pg. 113)
This book may appeal to some Christians who are counseling those (particularly women) who are struggling with LGBT issues.
Leanne Payne (1932-2015) was a research fellow at Yale Divinity School under Henri Nouwen; in 1982 she incorporated Pastoral Care Ministries, which provided pastoral care through prayer and counselling.
She wrote in the Preface to this 1981 book, “As a sexual neurosis, homosexuality is regarded as one of the most complex. As a condition for God to heal, it is (in spite of the widespread belief to the contrary) remarkably simple. This is a book about how to pray for the healing of the problem. The stories in this book were selected as being the most representative among those to whom I minister.’
She states, “In heterosexual relationships, the immature woman often attempts to find her life in her mate, and she thereby posits her identity or well-being in him… She, like any homosexual lover, will eventually find this a futile as well as degrading exercise. As her own dissatisfaction grows, she will increasingly demand what he does not nor should not have to give. Making him a god, she will be unable to bear the fact that he, like all creatures, has feet of clay. She will get in much the same kind of trouble as those involved in homosexual behavior in that she will never find here true identity through sexual intimacy.” “(Pg. 34)
She asserts, “Homosexual behavior is at once sinful and immature. The sinful aspect has to do with the lameness of the human spirit and is healed through confession and absolution of personal sin. The immature aspect is part of the lameness of the soul---that which is to be set straight so that both spirit and soul can grow into freedom.” (Pg. 38)
She suggests, “Often the father’s own self-serving manner of life and immaturity render him unable to affirm his son or daughter. Or it may even be that our permissive society has prematurely freed the son or daughter from the father’s rightful authority. Much of the homosexuality we see today is the harvest sown by the breakup of the American home and the absence of whole and affirming fathers.” (Pg. 58)
She reports that a young man named Mattheew “knows … that there is really no such thing as a ‘homosexual’ person. There are only those who need healing of old rejections and deprivations, deliverance from the wrong kind of self-love and the actions that tissue from it and—along with that—the knowledge of their higher selves in Christ.” (Pg. 63-64)
She recounts, “I have seen instances where a lesbian relationship issues out of what begins as merely a ‘counseling’ situation between one woman and another, and ends as an unholy wedding where each feeds the self-pitying illusion that other lives by. This can happen when the inner loneliness and tactile needs of someone (such as one suffering from infantile deprivation) come into collusion with another’s need to shape, direct, ‘do things to,’ or otherwise control and dominate anther soul.” (Pg. 107)
She argues, “There are instances where lesbian behavior is connected to fear and hatred of the father or of some other man. Out of hatred any and every kind of perversion can come. Unhealed schisms, whether between the sexes, the races, classes of workers, rich and poor, young and old, always breed hatred and therefore always form breeding grounds for various perversions.” (Pg. 113)
This book may appeal to some Christians who are counseling those (particularly women) who are struggling with LGBT issues.
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