The first Mormon I ever met enticed our co-workers to shun me...
and they werent Mormons ...only her..
I didnt know what i was supposed to have done wrong...
She woul;d walk right past me as though I wasnt there...
I was 19 at the time...
and in the last 40 years i cant remeber anyone acting that way towards me since...
But then i never did work with Mormons again...
and in the 7 years I was in the military i never did meett a mormon nor hear of one...
But then I was in during wartime...Vietnam...when deferments were being handed out to Mormon boys like candy...
()h it turned out one of the reasons the Mormon was shunning me was because a friend of mine had invited her to church with us when she came to pick me up...
Thats a big NONO...
Its garlic to a Mormon to be expected to attend a Christian service...
But the bigger reason was because I was a practicing blood bought Christian, and I knew the Bible...)
Sounds to me like she was just a nasty person and whether she was a mormon, jew, christian, seventh day adventist, she’d still be a nasty person. Some of the most God awful mean people I’ve met were from my own spirit filled Christian Churchs, not one church a few of them. I’ve met some wonderful christian people too. But because how petty and shunning Christians have been to others in my entire life of growing up in the church, - I decided my relationship with God had nothing to do with them. I have seen them twist and turn scripture around to acting condemning and without love. However it suits them and I have seen it hurt many people. Because of this, I no longer go to Church. My faith is strong without having to subject myself to an entire congregation of those who I have to weed through to find a few decent and kind individuals. Even on this thread, it reminds me of why I stopped attending church. I do not believe in judging others who proclame to love Jesus. That I believe is between God and them. I have met several Mormons and they have been kinder than many Christians I have known and for that reason, I will defend them on this thread.
This whole not attending a Christian service is so bizarre.
When my sonIL preached for the first time, I asked an lds aunt and uncle who decided for a short time to talk to me after nearly two decades of shunning to attend.
My uncle actually said he had to ask his bishop if it were permitted - the bishop said no, and they did not come.
My youngest daughter asked her lds friend from work to attend a Sunday service after she (my daughter) attended her friend’s service. The friend asked the bishop, and her bishop said yes but only once as reciprocation to my daughter attending the ward.
I just don’t get it. When I visit friends or non lds family I gladly go to their house of worship as they do mine when they visit me, no permission is needed for this to happen.