We Need a Guide.
Author: Andrew Comiskey
March 28, 2022
In a culture committed to
every sexual and relational variant imaginable, we need direction. A map for
whole relationships.
We have one for you. For
the first time, Desert Stream Ministries offers its premier gift—Living
Waters—to everyone in a new book, carefully revised, and
expertly filmed videoseries.
I’m proud of this effort—a
layered yet accessible guide for persons sane enough to know there must be a
better way and humble enough to know they need it. Everyone can benefit from
Living Waters and can love people better through it.
Jesus-centric and porous
in Spirit, Living Waters introduces us to the Father who fights for our human
dignity and wins us at Calvary. Jesus mirrors for us the gift we are as
gendered human beings and walks with us in route to becoming sound offerings of
that gift. No sixty sexual selves—just one human nature expressed in the man or
woman of God’s design. Jesus takes us down to the end of our efforts to save
ourselves and raises up our original dignity so we can dignify others.
The problem? We are more
clueless than not as to how lost we are. We even misuse our faith in a
defensive ‘we-them’ posture, zealously dim to the gaps and gashes and ‘normal’
adulteries that still drive us.
We need a guide. I began
authoring Living Waters 42-years-ago when our pastors urged Annette and I to begin
serving persons in West Hollywood; at that time, members sought to overcome
‘gay’ selves and actions. The problem was never ‘homosexual’—‘gay’ persons
didn’t exist then or now. Same-sex confusion signaled sin’s depth and
complexity in a culture clueless (including the church’s) as how to guide persons unto wholeness. Within a year, persons of all stripes from our Vineyard
church-in-revival were clamoring for Living Waters.
Living Waters is the
juncture where Merciful Jesus meets persons desperate for reconciliation at the
deepest level possible. No room for superficial and divisive labels: what the
honest, sin-weary soul needs is its Creator to become Redeemer.
Living Waters aims to mediate
the Father’s clarity of our identities, the Son’s Presence to anchor and guide us,
and the Spirit’s mending our divided souls. Each person is different—God knows
this—so Living Waters gives form while remaining fluid in Spirit toward a person’s
unique needs.
Living Waters is a
spiritual, psychological, and moral guide to wholeness.
Prior to now, the Living
Waters book has only been available for trained coordinators of Living Waters
groups. Now we offer it to you.
Watch videos,
open the book for yourselves. A
male and female witness elucidates each chapter. Welcome Living Waters with a
pastor, a director, a counselor, or a group of friends. Each of the twenty
chapters is a prayer that needs a chorus of pray-ers. If possible, I urge you to
not fly solo; relational problems require relational solutions. Discover Living
Waters and its Source with fellow members of Jesus. And someday, please, join
us in one of our weeklong
Living Waters trainings, three a year in different
parts of the USA.
Each of us has lost integrity
through sin and brokenness. Living Waters subtitle: ‘Restoring Relational
Integrity through the Broken Body of Christ’, says it all. Rediscover your lost
fullness through Jesus and His friends. Embody good news. Become the solid gift
that you are through the gift of Living Waters.
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