Christianity Today has a two-page article on Evangelical preaching to the Mormons, p. 18-19 of the Feb. 2004 issue or online here. Sample: After years of ineffective and often acrimonious evangelism . . ., a new coalition of evangelical clergy in Utah is attempting to treat Latter-day Saints with respect. Well, there's a radical approach to Christian preaching: respect. It certainly beats what their religious confreres have been doing at LDS Conference (there's a big photo in the magazine but not online, or go here for photos). These "street preachers" were trying to ridicule LDS beliefs (read the article for details), but all they managed to do was discredit Christians and tarnish their own message. These people have issues to deal with entirely unrelated to religion, I think.
It's too bad clowns like that can overshadow the commendable efforts of others, such as one Salt Lake minister quoted in the article who "has been trying to build trust with LDS leaders for nearly three years," or the three dozen evangelical ministers who defended the right of Mormons to go to their religious meetings without encountering that kind of ugliness. I would have been on the first plane out of town had I taunted Protestants in front of their church on Sunday morning or publicly made fun of the vestements of Catholic ministers or the robes of Buddhist monks during my two-year Mormon mission. Religion brings out the best in some people, but the worst in others, it seems.
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