{"id":309,"date":"2014-09-01T22:50:52","date_gmt":"2014-09-02T01:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/etvfc.org\/wp-blog\/?p=309"},"modified":"2014-09-01T22:50:52","modified_gmt":"2014-09-02T01:50:52","slug":"mormon-witnessing-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/etvfc.org\/wp-blog\/2014\/09\/mormon-witnessing-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"Mormon witnessing tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have witnessed to Mormons and it can be a bit intimidating because they use &#8220;our words with different meanings&#8221;.\u00a0 It is always good to let them explain the terms they use, etc.\u00a0\u00a0 First, I would use the law and the commandments to allow the holy spirit to convict of sin.\u00a0 the following is a &#8220;method&#8221; but I prefer it to roman&#8217;s road because it is more specific vs. &#8220;all have sinned&#8221; (ever told a lie? hated someone? lusted? etc).\u00a0 get them to admit to being an adulterer, murderer, etc.\u00a0 guilty or innocent?\u00a0 heaven or hell?\u00a0 does that concern you?\u00a0 does that concern you enough to do something about it?\u00a0 do you know what God did so you don&#8217;t have to go to hell?\u00a0 do you know what God tells you to do? (faith and repentance).\u00a0 after taking them through this approach (which I like because it steers away from using heaven, blessings, etc as drawcards) this is where they will either see the difference or you can then answer objections etc.<\/p>\n<p>if there are objections I would get into asking them what they are trusting in&#8230;..ie hold out the book of Mormon and the bible and ask them what they would trust for absolute truth.\u00a0 then you can show them the difference between the real and counterfeit.\u00a0 examples, show them science facts in the bible and science errors in the book of Mormons.\u00a0 the key is this is not an intellectual thing.\u00a0 it is very tempting to turn this into a debate and just want to win.\u00a0 we can win and they still end up in hell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have witnessed to Mormons and it can be a bit intimidating because they use &#8220;our words with different meanings&#8221;.\u00a0 It is always good to let them explain the terms they use, etc.\u00a0\u00a0 First, I would use the law and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/etvfc.org\/wp-blog\/2014\/09\/mormon-witnessing-tips\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/etvfc.org\/wp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/etvfc.org\/wp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/etvfc.org\/wp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/etvfc.org\/wp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/etvfc.org\/wp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/etvfc.org\/wp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310,"href":"http:\/\/etvfc.org\/wp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions\/310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/etvfc.org\/wp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/etvfc.org\/wp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/etvfc.org\/wp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}