This is the point which gay advocates just don't get! Overcomers, (Christians resolving homosexuality) if they have been successful at resolution, are not repressing, suppressing or trying to change the condition of homosexual attraction, which they experience. Rather, because of their faith in God, they are allowing God to transform them, even as they may go on living with homosexual inclinations. They have reached for a higher, spiritual, moral goal of resolution. They do this because of their faith; and they do it in Faith.

RESOLUTION! There is a big difference between a "resolution" and a "solution". Which of the two are you looking for? Are you looking for a solution to your problem with homosexuality, or are you looking for a resolution of your problem with homosexuality? You ask, "What’s the difference, and why is this difference so important?"

In the healing of psychological and emotional problems there are rarely, if ever, "cures" and final solutions. Solutions are for math problems. Solutions are what happens to a thing or an issue, not a person. Solutions are final and forever. Resolution is what people are about. Resolutions are dynamic and changing like people.

That’s why you never hear me use the word "solution" or "cure". When people come to seek my help with homosexuality, I let them know up front that I don’t want them to think that I can offer them a cure or a solution. My best statement of what I can offer goes something like this: "I’m willing to assist you in "resolving" your conflict with the problem of homosexuality or sexual orientation confusion, in a manner that is compatible with, and faithful to your biblical values and Christian beliefs."

The real difference between these two words -and their accompanying mentalities- is clarified and understood when we go and have a little talk with Mr. Webster. He tells us that the word "resolution" is derived from the Latin words resolvere and solutum. The word solutum further derives from the verb solvo. Look what this word means: ‘to loosen, untie, unbind, to release, to set free, to bring to an end, to lose its force, to dissolve’.

In Music a "resolution" means to make progress from dissonance to consonance; that is, from a discordant sounding piece of music which then "resolves" by becoming harmonious and pleasant to hear. In Optics the word ‘resolution’ means ‘to distinguish between or render visible the separate parts of, as lines in a spectrum’.

Now look at the word "solution". While it comes from the same Latin root, it implies finality and completeness. It usually is defined in relation to the sciences of chemistry and math. In Math it means ‘the process or result of solving, or finding the answer to a problem.’

Resolution also has the meaning of "resolve" like in the phrase "I resolve to do better". It means to be determined and committed.

So let me ask you to reflect on this. What kind of a mentality (solution or resolution) do you think you have been operating under about your issue with homosexuality? What do you lose when you change from a solution to a resolution mentality? What do you gain? What seems to change when you change your mentality?

1. Let me ask, do you have the difference between solution and resolution straight in your mind? Explain! Having read the meaning of "resolution" what does it mean to you?