the battle is raging over theological
truth and some of our suppose and foot
soldiers are running away from the
battle line member of your congregation
comes to you and says Joe I really want
to vote for Romney but I'm concerned
because he's a Mormon I'm not sure he's
a Christian what do you say to that
congregant well my personally used wolf
is that when I hear MIT Romney say that
he believes that Jesus is the Son of God
that he's the Christ raised from the
dead that he says Savior that's good
enough for me
and I would encourage them in the same
way is you know what we don't all have
the same views and I realized Mormonism
is not traditional Christianity but I'm
probably a little broader and more open
in the fact that when somebody loves
Jesus and believes they're the son of
God that's good for me
broad indeed like the road that leads to
destruction that is naive in the extreme
can you imagine if I said I follow the
teachings of Joel Osteen let me describe
Joel Osteen for you he's a woman about 5
feet 4 inches tall blonde hair and he
has a northern kind of a hey can you
pass the hot dish there Trudy type of
accent you'd go wait a second that's not
Joel Osteen even Joel Osteen would go in
a second you're not talking about me no
no no I follow the teachings of Joel
Osteen really I love the guy's a 5 foot
4 inch blonde woman from Fargo North
Dakota Joel Osteen would go wait a
second you don't know me
exactly just because they say they
follow Jesus if they have the wrong one
they're not following the true Jesus
November 2011 Pew poll 32% say they
don't believe the Mormon faith is a
Christian religion it's the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints but
what I hear you saying is you do believe
it's a Christian religion sort of well I
do I believe there there are things that
are the same but they're you know
obviously there's if you get deeper into
it there's things it's not traditional
Christianity but I'm looking at more the
broadness of when somebody believes that
Jesus is their Savior and the Son of God
to me that
really I believe they're a believer in
Christ a wolf on wolf