Conversion Again

Posted to D.O. on Oct. 6, 2000

For years and years I preached from the pulpit that Mormonism was of the devil, that Joseph Smith was the founder of a cult. As a conservative Baptist minister I believed it vehemently with every fiber of my being. I was quite a "crusader for the truth," meaning--about as anti-Mormon as you can get. I hung out with John Ankerberg and Jerry Fallwell. I shamed my opponents, publicly confronted them, humiliated them wrote literature against them and campaigned from door to door with my fellow evangelical ministers. All in the name of Truth.

Then it happened...

One day our loving Father very quietly, very unassuming, but very very convincingly--without the help of any human instrument--let me know that the precious restoration gospel, the Book of Mormon, and Joseph Smith were each sent to us from God our Father. Up 'till that moment, I had my paradigm (Mormonism is of the devil) and our brothers have theirs (patriotism and Christianity are aligned). Let God be God. And let it go.

Lynn