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It’s the strangest thing, but since I’ve been “supplementing” my spiritual diet with non-LDS resources, I find that I can’t get enough. I’m like Parley P Pratt when he found the Book of Mormon. Instead of listening to music or sports or political radio on my drive into work, I find myself downloading and listening to sermons from various Christian churches. I am absorbed by KLOVE (Contemporary Christian) music on the radio and while at work. I listen to sermons when I run on my headphones. I have the local evangelical radio station as a preset in my car because they play snippets of sermons during my drive home time. If I were relying on feelings and emotions as my guide to what religious path to follow (as I repeatedly told people to do on my mission), andif I were totally honest with myself and others, then I’d have to say that God is leading me on a path out of “mormonism” and into evangelical Christianity.
I can’t say that I am ready to act one way or the other, but I’m finding this fascinating.
We certainly have no monopoly on truth, and I find that most other churches I have looked closely at have as much as we do concerning the gospel itself. I don’t see anything wrong with listening to the sermons of other churches or other Christian music. FWIW, I do know a couple (married in the temple, kids served missions and all) who asked to have their names removed after the guy became somewhat addicted to religious TV and came to believe the church was “dead” (his word). I do believe Article of Faith 11 apples to everybody (it says “all men”) including church members – if that’s the “dictates of [your] own conscience,” who am I to disagree? baldzach wrote:It’s the strangest thing, but since I’ve been “supplementing” my spiritual diet with non-LDS resources, I find that I can’t get enough. I’m like Parley P Pratt when he found the Book of Mormon. Instead of listening to music or sports or political radio on my drive into work, I find myself downloading and listening to sermons from various Christian churches. I am absorbed by KLOVE (Contemporary Christian) music on the radio and while at work. I listen to sermons when I run on my headphones. I have the local evangelical radio station as a preset in my car because they play snippets of sermons during my drive home time.
If I were relying on feelings and emotions as my guide to what religious path to follow (as I repeatedly told people to do on my mission), andif I were totally honest with myself and others, then I’d have to say that God is leading me on a path out of “mormonism” and into evangelical Christianity.
I can’t say that I am ready to act one way or the other, but I’m finding this fascinating.
I have lots of problems with authoritarian religion but if it makes you happy. In particular the evangelicals with the manipulation of emotions(especially children).
See Jesus camp documentary. That kind of religious teaching should be outlawed. It’s very harmful.
I believe there is lots of good almost everywhere – but I really despise lots of the evangelical world, and I despise very little. This isn’t the place or time for why, and, ultimately, you need to follow your heart an conscience. Just make sure you get as full a picture of any alternative as you have of Mormonism – or you will end up in exactly the same situation down the road that you are in now.
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