As a professor, I’m familiar with the adage, “You never really learn something until you teach it.”
My experiences showed me the same is true for sharing the Gospel with Mormons. Preparing, listening, applying and responding caused me to study the Scriptures and think about how I could best meet the missionaries where they are in their spiritual journey and share God’s message with them.
God used this process to generate spiritual growth in me.
Marty
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Bert
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I think that Please Open the Door is code for Please Open Your Heart.
Throughout this whole experience, you are deep in the Word. As your faith grows so does the love you have for your Savior. As you build a respectful relationship with these young people you also come to care for them very deeply on a personal level. You come to love them and will try to plant as many seeds as the Lord gives opportunity.
If you’d have asked me five years ago whether or not I would be regularly meeting and sharing the gospel with Mormon missionaries I would have laughed at the idea.
And yet, by the grace of God, I now not only have regular meetings with the missionaries, I find myself seeking other opportunities to be with them as well!
Cindy
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Linda
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Here’s the thing, we didn’t do anything big—and we never saw if what we did had long-term results. Still, we did what we could. I made sure young men had a place to eat or get cookies while Greg spoke the truth and prayed that the Holy Spirit would use those words to work in their hearts.
As I was deep into studying Mormonism, I began to realize how much doctrine was eerily similar to what I had grown up believing.
I read Ephesians 2:8-9 and my eyes were opened wide:
For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so that no one can boast.
Andrew
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