I have a friend who is a self-described agnostic, who was raised Mormon, but now denounces it, yet still reads books by Gordon B. Hinkley (“prophet” of the LDS church). She also read the DaVinchi code and really thought it was good, and she suggested that I read it. Not sure if I’m really interested in reading it. Should I? I also need to ask her if she reads the Bible & find out which Bible she reads. Hopefully it’s not the JS translation, eek. Maybe I’ll just go get her a new Bible. I did offer to her the books Case for Faith, and Case for Christ, and she said she would read them if I lent them to her, so I am going to bring them to her tomorrow.
I am praying that I will be able to witness to her, so that I could share with her the feelings of my heart. I want to plant the seed of God’s love through Christ, to get her to question if He was more than what she described as “not a savior, just a good man.” So far, she’s falling into the trap of the of believing the second biggest lie of Mormonism, which is that if the Mormon church is the “one true chruch” then every other church is false. Or, maybe she is just being extra cautious because she doesn’t want to get hurt or decieved again.
What books are really good to help prepare us to witness? I need to prepare myself and be ready to give the reasons for the hope and trust that I have. I need to share God’s grace with others.
The song called “Here I Go Again” by Casting Crowns expresses my heart right now…
Father Hear My Prayer
I Need The Perfect Words
Words That He Will Hear
And Know They’re Straight From You
I Don’t Know What To Say
I Only Know It Hurts
To See My Only Friend
Slowly Fade Away
So Maybe This Time
I’ll Speak The Words Of Life
With Your Fire In My Eyes
But That Old Familiar Fear
Is Tearing At My Words
What Am I So Afraid Of
But Here I Go Again
Talkin Bout The Rain
And Mulling Over Things
That Won’t Live Past Today
And As I Dance Around The Truth
That Time Is Not His Friend
This Might Be My Last Chance
To Tell Him That You Love Him
But Here I Go Again
Here I Go Again
Lord You Love Him So
You Gave Your Only Son
If He Just Believed
He Will Never Die
But How Then Will He Know
What He Has Never Heard
Or Never Seen Mirrored In My Life
So Maybe This Time
I’ll Speak the Word Of Like
With Your Fire In My Eyes
But That Old Familiar Fear
Is Tearing At My Words
What Am I So Afraid Of
But Here I Go Again
Talkin Bout The Rain
And Mulling Over Things
That Won’t Live Past Today
And As I Dance Around The Truth
That Time Is Not His Friend
This Might Be My Last Chance
To Tell Him That You Love Him
But Here I Go Again
Here I Go
Here I Go
So Maybe This Time
I’ll Speak The Words Of Life
With Your Fire In My Eyes
But That Old familiar Fear
Is Tearing At My Words
What Am I So Afraid Of
But Here I Go Again
Talkin Bout The Rain
And Mulling Over Things
That Won’t Live Past Today
And As I Dance Around The Truth
That Time Is Not His Friend
This Might Be My Last Chance
To Tell Him That You Love Him
This Might Be My Last Chance
To Tell Him That You Love Him
This Might Be My Last Chance
To Tell Him That You Love Him
You Love Him
You Love Him
What Am I So Afraid
What Am I So Afraid
What Am I So Afraid Of
How Then Will He Know
What He Has Never Heard
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July 19, 2004 at 10:02 am
Lesa
Monica–about the DaVinci Code…my small group Bible study has been collectively using our knowledge of history, theology, and the scriptures to discuss this book…it is filled with falacies and things that are easily proved false about Christianity. But, the Bible tells us that satan will tell you 1000 truths to sell you one lie, and that is what this book does. So, I would recommend reading it, but make sure you pick up a copy of the books that Christian authors have written about “breaking” the DaVinci Code, etc., so that you can know where the fallacies lie.
That’s a great song, also. Casting Crowns has blown me away in the past week, since I bought their CD. AMAZING words!
July 19, 2004 at 3:50 pm
dan
Man, we’ve been getting a *lot* of mileage from that album on our sites!
July 19, 2004 at 4:12 pm
Monica
Hi Lesa, thanks for sharing this… “the Bible tells us that satan will tell you 1000 truths to sell you one lie, and that is what this book does.” Where in the word can I find that, it would prove useful to know : ) I think I will look into the book you mentioned too. I appriciate what you’ve shared!!
Hi Dan! It’s totally an awesome album! Every song speaks to me and I can’t pick a favorite. I feel the Spirit stirring me with each word expressed. : D
July 20, 2004 at 10:04 am
Lesa
Okay…so, in the church we have phrases that are thrown around so much that we come to believe they are scriptural…I’m really sorry! I was looking yesterday for this verse, and asked a few people, and we decided that this must be a “Christianism”…forgive me, for I have just spread a Christianism that is not scriptural!