“We’re projecting out probably within four years,” apostle Jeffrey R. Holland told a radio interviewer, “the base-line number for the missionary force will be something around 100,000.” – Peggy Fletcher Stack
Jude 1:3-4; “Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints. 4 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.”
Oh how this news from the Church hurts my heart! Each of those kids going out to spread the lies of Mormonism is be yond tragic. How does one quantify the heaviness in the Lord’s heart over such a situation?
Like Jude, we need to keep reminding people of the original gospel Jesus gave to His disciples, and they in turn, wrote it down for us. Watch for those who bring another gospel (Gal. 1:6-9) and be like the Bereans who opened their scrolls to investigate and compare what they heard against the scriptures God had already given to them (Acts 17:11).
We’re praying their projections are wrong just as they were with Rodney Stark’s prediction there would be 60 million Mormons by 2080. See excerpt from the SL Trib below.
The bottom line in all this isn’t about numbers. As we all know, the end game is about the message they’re spreading. I’m wondering if Jesus’ words ever cross their minds when they make comments like this?
Matthew 22:14; “For many are called, but few are chosen.”
‘Predicting the future: In 1984, University of Washington sociologist Rodney Stark was astonished to discover that the LDS Church’s growth rate from 1940 through 1980 was 53 percent. He estimated that if it continued to grow at a more modest 30 percent, there would be 60 million Mormons by the year 2080; if 50 percent, the figure would explode to 265 million.
He famously predicted that the LDS Church “will soon achieve a worldwide following comparable to that of Islam, Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, and the other dominant world faiths.”’ – Salt Lake Trib