Mormon Direction

Not long ago, I was in conversation with a fellow who quit the Seventh Day Adventist church because he was against it’s membership in the World Counsel of churches (WCC). He claimed that he believes in Jesus Christ, yet he quit his chosen church which preached salvation by the Bible. This saying that he quit what he believed was his chosen church and his means of salvation because of his personal disagreement with his church. 

Our conversation began about the false traditions of other Christians where he spoke of his short findings about the WCC, but when he asked me if I belonged to a church and I told him, his tune quickly changed, hypocrisy and ignorance began to rear it’s ugly head. 

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When I was approached by the LDS missionaries, I felt the Holy Ghost confirm that meeting was important. The Holy Ghost later confirmed that my membership with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was good and true. At no time did I have any concern about any “alledged” immoral actions of other Mormons.  My attendance to this Church was led by the Spirit, not by personal judgements of other people. 

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Ponder the account of Jesus Christ in the New Testament, where he spoke the doctrine of the Father and showed by example the principles of the Father to many in the jewish synagogues. Remember how much resistance he received from the Pharisees who disbelieved those doctrines. For example how the Phariee’s delared Jesus a violator of the Sabbath when he healed a person on that day. Jesus spoke to them “words” telling them “wisdom”, that the Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. How the Pharisee’s refused to listen, how wicked they were.

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Have you experienced at sometime a person does something or says something, that you feel his or her sincerity? From that sincerity is assurance, a sense of stability and from this, a sense of peace, that all is now fine or resolved?

Have you experienced sometime when someone says something whose outward words appear as sincere or his/her actions by appearance are OK or good, but you do not feel the sincerity? Instead you feel instability, a sense of warning or caution and from this, no sense of peace?

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This person, Glenn Beck has been dubbed as an unlikely person to have turned to religion, let alone choosing the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints! To listen to his example, where he was a hard talking man (means foul and mean, like someone else I know), shows how God’s truth can change a person’s life.

Yet, with all the hardness in his life, he chose this Church. An intelligent man, well informed of the things of the world and of course well informed of worldly affairs, which would include “religions”.

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Have you heard this before from ex-members? I have heard this and wondered why they would be happy. I wondered if this is something that I should think about, but whether I ponder this or not, the fact remains that Mormon’s will face this claim from ex-members at least once in their life.

Happiness is a relative term. Simply look at some people in diverse places in life. A labourer, a white collar worker, an athlete and so on. Asking each of them if they would be happy in the life style of others and if things are going well for them, then the usual answer is “No”. Happiness is therefore a relative term that is applied by personal preferences, desires, ideas and state of mind. Still, this does not fully explain the claim by some ex-members that they are “happier” not being a Mormon.

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Usually it is the simplest thing that eludes our perceptions such that, what we think we see or understand is actually not the truth.

Life holds many such experiences, yet people take these experiences and facts of life (in mortality) for granted. Not realizing that these simple things have profound affects on our minds and hearts.

One such event came into my life years ago when I was beginning my membership into the Church. At that time I had no experience with the gospel, but had my own ideas and beliefs about spirituality and life. Of course, these personal ideas and beliefs were born of the world.

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With the array of differing doctrines in the general Christian community among the many Christian denominations, one wonders who is true and who is not. I say this from the perspective of a new convert or one who is investigating which church to join.

When I researched the many beliefs of the many Christian denominations, I began to find a consistent pattern among all of them. This pattern refers to “perspective”. The thing within each person that determines how he/she will view and comprehend God’s word. It is “perspective” that will either serve a person well or mislead them.

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