Recent visitors

We were visited today by some LDS missionaries. My heart breaks for them. They are so misguided--I can't imagine feeling so burdened by good works and not being able to express doubt. These young men were kind, earnest and intelligent. Just completely misguided.

My pastor said that often it takes 15 years for a mormon to leave the church--seeds can be planted by kind Christians when they're "missionaries" and then years later help them leave.

PLEASE please please pray for them. I feel so sad for the LDS members. The missionaries are coming back next week, and I hope that something I say will stick with them.

Our prayer has been that since we're stuck in Utah, God will not just help us to survive here but that we will help be a light in this spiritually dark place. We want to be a catalyst to lead people to Jesus Christ.

They call themselves Christians. BUT--I found a Christian website that ministers to Mormons and they had much information for those of us who are a bit unfamiliar with them. It's Lighthouse Ministries

Here's what they say regarding Mormons being just another Protestant Christian denomination:

"No, the Mormon Church does not claim to be Protestant. It claims to be a divine restoration of Christ's true church. It therefore rejects the validity of any other church. Its basic beliefs place it outside the standard doctrines of Christianity. Mormonism teaches that the God to whom they pray is but one of a whole series of gods who at one time were mortal then progressed to godhood. The LDS Church teaches that their Heavenly Father was once born as a spirit child of a god and wife who ruled a different world. After maturing as a spirit being he was sent to another world where he was born as a human. There he grew to maturity, married, died, was resurrected, went to heaven, progressed and eventually became the God of our world. He and his resurrected wife continue to have spirit children born to them in their heavenly realm. The Mormon man, accompanied by his wife, who is faithful to his religion, pays his tithe, attends the LDS temple rituals, etc. is hoping to eventually progress to become a god of another world, just like his Heavenly Father did. "

Staci's note: Many members of LDS will claim that they do not intend to become "gods" and will say that they just want to be "like God, in much the same way you want your children to be like or better than yourself." Just be aware that they tend to twist things!!!