Utah sends its Mormon missionaries to proselytize others from the Christian church; will the Evangelicals attempt to reach out to the homes where these potential proseletyzers are coming from?
Utah is second only to Wyoming in charitable giving .
What is stopping you ?
Utah, where most surveys show just more than two-thirds of the residents are Latter-day Saints, is the 12th most religious state in the United States. Utah takes a back seat to 11 Southern states, most in the Bible Belt.
——— the most religious states are Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Tennessee, South Carolina, Oklahoma, North Carolina, Georgia and Kentucky.
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Since when is Louisiana a part of the Bible Belt?
I grant you the northern part of the state is but not anything in the southern part of the state (where most people are)
And I’ll already tell you you’ll never break the Mormon church in Utah. You have to be Mormon in most of the state to even be viable, except for Salt Lake City, and the non-Mormons in Salt Lake City tend to be very liberal because they go out of their way to be the “non-Mormon” and as such try and be the polar opposite of whatever Mormons are on any given issue.
And I suspect that the youth who are leaving the Mormon church are leaving because of it’s social restrictions such as those on alcohol and tobacco and I’d imagine they also intend to leave the state. I don’t know how that makes them ripe coverts for the SBC but then again I’m Catholic.
CC has been an integral part of a “former mormon” Christian
Church that is growing rapidly. The fields are white for
harvest!
Well - DUH!!
They take all that PROZAC® so they don't get committed as often!
So, if Utah is 2nd in worship attendance but 10th in devotion, that tells us that whenever a state has this kind of "discrepancy" -- that there's a good amount of ritual religiosity going on. (It's not lived out beyond Sunday into Monday night Family Home Evenings)
Now, granted, I'm not advocating that Mormons eat up more Mormonism 24/7. The problem is too much of it is being devoured already.
But if Mormons would read more of the Bible -- and ensure their prayers are to the God of the Bible and to Jesus Christ (and Jesus is repeatedly DIRECTLY prayed to in both the Bible and the Book of Mormon...see 3 Nephi 19 for the BoM), then they can get a proper undergirding of judging the later alleged revelations (by Smith & others) BY the former ones.
That's what the Bereans did (Acts 17:11). That's what noble Christians of character do: They compare anything revealed in the 1800s to what was revealed in the 100-year period Christ and His disciples were around -- and they also compare all of that to the Old Testament.
Now the Bereans were of more noble character than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true. (Acts 17:11)
So make that a 2010 revelation: Study the Bible; pray to the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and to Jesus Christ of Nazareth.
**Utah trails Bible Belt states in religious commitment**
To what?
the LDS?
**Evangelicals, do we hear the call? **
Catholics have already heard this call.
Catholics have already heard this call.
There have been great harvests in Utah the last several years with more to come.
The success of ministries like “Heart of the Matter” (Shawn McCraney) and “Truth in Love” (Mark Cares) in not only leading people out of the LDS but into a relationship with Christ has been amazing!
I have several friends who are pastors in Utah and one says his congregational growth by ex-mormons has been phenomenal the last few years.
Ex-mormons are crowding the pews of Evangelical Churches in Utah.
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