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"Evangelize the Mormons" - #396
February 7, 2005
Hello!
I pray that you had a super week and weekend.
On Wednesday, my church showed a video on Mormonism. It explained its strengths and weaknesses and showed how many Mormon doctrines contradict the Bible. I've researched Mormonism a great deal and if you'd like to learn more about their doctrines and beliefs, then please go here: http://www.jcsm.org/Contents/Mormonism.htm.
After some prayer and consideration, I've joined my church's choir. It has been a lot of fun, too! Please pray that we always glorify the Lord and that I can reach some personal goals regarding my singing.
If you're in Southern California, you'll want to attend the Steeling the Mind Conference on Saturday. It will be in Anaheim, California and many fantastic speakers like Chuck Missler, Frank Peretti, Kent Hovind, and Mike Gendron will be lecturing. See http://compass.org for details.
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Welcome to the new readers of this message! Here is your Devotion, A Moment of Introspection, JCSM's Challenge, the Word of the Week, a faith-builder from "The Skeptic's Annotated Bible: Corrected and Explained," and the Quotes of the Week. Have a fantastic week and God bless you!
Love in Christ,
Jason Gastrich
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JCSM's Weekly Devotions (click here to listen!)
Galatians 1:8 "But even if we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed."
1 John 4:1 "Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world."
Romans 10:9, 10 "If you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation."
Insight: There is no better way to stay close to Christ and expose false Mormon doctrines than to know the Bible intimately. Know the gospel and know what God says to us in the Word. If we understand the person of Christ and the scriptures, we won't be swayed by other doctrines.
Prayer: "Dear Lord, thank you for giving us your Word. Thank you for saving us through faith in Jesus Christ. Your grace is awesome. Help those people that are deceived. Let true Christians be a light to the ones that are in darkness. Bless Mormons and lead them to the gospel. Help them to see Jesus Christ as the Bible portrays Him; not as Mormon doctrines portray Him and the Father. Praise You for being the author of truth and goodness. Let us follow You and know You more. In Jesus' name, Amen."
Gunning Bedford (1747 -1812), one of the signers of the Constitution of the United States of America, was the delegate from Delaware to the Constitutional Convention, where he played a considerable part in the Federal Convention. - Allen Johnson, ed., Dictionary of American Biography (New York: Charles Scribner’s, 1964), I:123. Tim LaHaye, Faith of Our Founding Fathers (Brentwood, TN: Wolgemuth & Hyatt, Publishers, Inc., 1987), p. 149. He was later appointed by President Washington to the First Federal District Court in 1789.
He attended Princeton University, where he and James Madison shared a room. While there he studied under the formative influence of John Witherspoon, one of the nations premier theologians and legal scholars. - Tim LaHaye, Faith of Our Founding Fathers (Brentwood, TN: Wolgemuth & Hyatt, Publishers, Inc., 1987), pp. 148-149.
Being a delegate from the State of Delaware, he would have complied with the requirements for office stipulated by that State’s Constitution, which included:
“Article XXIIHHH Every person who shall be chosen a member of either house, or appointed to any office or place of trust… shall… make and subscribe the following declaration, to wit: ‘I, ____, do profess faith in God the Father, and in Jesus Christ His only Son, and in the Holy Ghost, one God, blessed for evermore; and I do acknowledge the holy scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be given by divine inspiration.’” - Constitution of the State of Delaware. Church of the Holy Trinity v. U.S. 457, 469-470 (1892). M. E. Bradford, A Worthy Company (NH: Plymouth Rock Foundation, 1982), p. x. David Barton, The Myth of Separation (Aledo, TX: WallBuilder Press, 1991), p. 23.
It's not enough to tell people that Jesus loves them because some people, like Mormons for instance, believe in a different Jesus.
Wash someone else's feet. This is the example that Jesus gave us in the Bible. If you've ever done this, then you know what an awesome sign it is to show others that you are following Christ and serving them.
God bless you as you meet this week's challenge!
anathema (Greek, see Galatians 1:8): a (religious) ban or (concretely) excommunicated (thing or person), accursed
The Skeptic's Annotated Bible: Corrected and Explained
"The Skeptic's Annotated Bible" claims:
Genesis 21:10-14 - Sarah, after giving birth to Isaac, gets angry again at Hagar (see Gen.16:5-6) and tells Abraham to 'cast out this bondwoman and her son." God commands Abraham to "hearken unto her voice." So Abraham abandons Hagar and Ishmael, casting them out into the wilderness to die.
"The Skeptic's Annotated Bible: Corrected and Explained" responds:
God's plan was not for Ishmael and Hagar to die. This is shown by the prophecy that He gives to them; which later comes true.
(This explanation came from "The Skeptic's Annotated Bible: Corrected and Explained", by Jason Gastrich. This book is on CD and explains over 3,000 difficulties regarding the entire Bible at http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.org. There is also a 300 question workbook that accompanies the CD-ROM.)
Apostolic authority, consistency, and early use determined the biblical canon.
Mormons believe that God was a human and attained a certain degree of enlightenment, so He was given his own world.
Mormons say, "As you are, God was. As God is, you can become."
The cults flourish because of biblical illiteracy.
Those that know their Bibles don't get converted to Mormonism.
You can be the vehicle in which you bring them to the Lord.
Mormons think God and Jesus were married, polygamists.
According to Mormonism, it is by grace you are saved, after all you can do.
How will Mormons come to Christ if we don't give them the gospel?
Jesus gave His life for us because He wanted to; not because we deserved it.
These quotes came from God, me, and various speakers from The Rock Church.
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