During the first weekend of October Mormons all around the world will gather together in their homes and church buildings to watch General Conference. During the conference they’ll hear from various church leaders as well as their prophet. The messages they hear will be on many things, but I know for certain they won’t hear a message like the one Todd Friel gave here.
Mormons are so caught up in the do, do, do of their religion and achieving their own righteousness that they’ve completely missed the point of why Jesus came in the first place. I wish every Mormon could hear the true gospel message of grace, and being saved after nothing they can do.
I’m Mormon, and you’re right and wrong about this. We have a “do” religion, and some do get caught only in that, but obviously so do all Christians or this message wouldn’t have been given. Todd nailed it really. It was a great message but the same message was published this month in the lds/mormon magazine: Ensign. Here’s the link, I think you’ll really love it: http://www.lds.org/ensign/2013/09/his-grace-is-sufficient?lang=eng
I invite you to listen to General Conference in a couple of weeks and listen for the type of messages you’d like us to hear. They’re being preached all the time by the prophets, apostles, and leaders of this Church.
We are both Christian’s my friend. We ought to unite on all of the many truths we agree on.
Your friend, Lee.
Hello LeeZieBarth, I watched General Conferences twice a year over the thirteen years I was a member of the Mormon Church. I even watched it a few times after I left the church, and to me the messages sound like the same recycled materials over and over again.
You’re right like Mormons, Christians too can fall into the trap that it’s all about what you do, and if they could only do more they would become more holy and righteous.
The thing is Christians should know better, if we know that “there is none righteous” and it’s the righteousness of Jesus that makes us acceptable to God we shouldn’t be feeling like we have to work for God’s acceptance. We should understand that it doesn’t matter how much we do because we will never be righteous on our own.
Mormons however have been taught to believe that through their own works they can be made righteous, and be made right will God. If this wasn’t the case there would be no need for temple work. The Mormon Church teaches its members to seek out and find their dead and baptize them into the church, do their endowments on their behalf and seal families together.
If the righteousness of Jesus was solely what Mormon’s believed people needed to be received into the presence of God when they died, why all the work for the dead who died as believing Christians?
The sad, yet cold hard truth is Jesus isn’t enough, nor will His work on the cross ever be enough for the Mormon Church.
no this is again another atempt to decive, you people are the most rude and evil people ive ever studyed, you are neither chirstain or a beliver you only belive what your teachers give you read the bible for yourself and you will find jesus.for he is the way the truth and the life.trying not to be rude but you have decived so many.may you come to truly know jesus he loves you . and yes i can judge.
You think Jesus did everything like a parent who GOES to college for their child. We believe Jesus did everything to make college POSSIBLE for the child to attend.
That’s right Jesus did do everything for us. He paid the horrible price for our sins so that we wouldn’t have too. He suffered and died on the cross taking on all of our sins past, present and future, becoming a sacrifice for sin.
Sin is an ugly, ugly thing and He became that for us, so that we can live with the Father if we only repent, turn from our sins and follow Him.
Mormons have been taught to believe its Jesus plus temple works, membership in the Mormon Church, accepting Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon that makes someone able to stand in the presence of God.
Christians know its Jesus, just Jesus. It’s His blood covering all our sins that allows us to stand in His presence.
I love how simple this is: We believe different things about Jesus but the core is the same – you and I sin. We cannot be made clean to dwell with God without the atoning, sacrificial blood of Jesus Christ. That makes you and I Christians. Hold the statement I just made up against every other religion and non-religion in the world and you and I are on the same page. So, again, we ought to unite and not banter about differences.
LeeZieBarth – If the blood of Jesus is enough why the temple works for the dead? Why are the members of your church commanded to baptize the dead into the Mormon Church even if they were baptized and members of a Christian Church while they were alive?
Who cares if they didn’t “have a chance” to accept Mormonism if they already had Jesus Christ? If the blood of Jesus is all they needed why do they need to be baptized again into the Mormon Church?
It all goes back to salvation (living with God) through a relationship with a religion and membership in that religion, vs, salvation (living with God) being solely through Jesus Christ alone.
If you truly believed your statement you wouldn’t think membership (baptism) in the Mormon Church, even for the dead was a requirement to enter Heaven.