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TO MAKE MATTERS WORSE
Ed Decker
I recently shared an article with you about the “Emergent Mormon Church” [Read it on our website] and how it was following the lead of the Christian “Seeker Friendly” and “Emergent Church” groups that have powered down their Christian witness to wash away the shed blood of Christ and turn it to water.
This month, The National Association of Evangelicals [NAE] held its semi- annual meeting in Park City, Utah, on March 10, 2011, promoting a program of reconciliation, forgiveness, acceptance and fellowship with the Mormons. Much was said privately by their leaders about Mormonism being a cult group, but their actions belied their testimony.
The panels were formed of only those people who have already thrown in with their Mormon Christian friends, men like Greg Johnson, From Standing Together, who travelled about with LDS Apologist, Robert Millet, sharing the wonderful things we all have in common.
Another example of the Christian Faith was Dr. Richard Mouw, president of Fuller Seminary in California, who had already disgraced all those who work to bring Mormons to Christ when in the historic Mormon Tabernacle on November 14, 2004, when he said,
…my evangelical forebears hurled angry accusations and vehement denunciations at the Mormon community-a practice that continues from some evangelical quarters even into this present day. “
Then added:
“I am now convinced that we evangelicals have often seriously misrepresented the beliefs and practices of the Mormon community. Indeed, let me state it bluntly to the LDS folks here this evening: we have sinned against you. The God of the Scriptures makes it clear that it is a terrible thing to bear false witness against our neighbors, and we have been guilty of that sort of transgression in things we have said about you.”
LDS “apostle” Jeffrey Holland gave a speech there and then answered questions for an hour! Surprisingly, not one person or ministry to the Mormons who might say something that might break the “sweetness of the event” was invited to speak or sit on any panel. Dear people, we workers in this field have been sold out by false Christian leaders.
Forget about the harm Glenn Beck or Mitt Romney may do to this cause. The Christian church in America is being devoured by ravening wolves in our own flocks, and not just in the flocks, but the very leaders of the church. And Leith Anderson, NAE President is a leader in that pack.
One final note on the Positive side..
I received this in an email from an old acquaintance from years gone by:
When I’m approached by LDS who want to tell me how wonderful their church is, I always tell them how much I admire aspects of their religion and mention that we still have friends who are faithful members.
“But, you know,” I say, “the one thing I simply can’t get past is trying to reconcile the polytheism of your church with Christianity, which is forthrightly monotheistic.”
One “Elder” responded, “But we worship only one god,” at which point I explained that polytheism has nothing to do with the number of gods you worship but the number you believe in.
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