As he describes the Church’s belief that the family unit endures eternally, Lyle [Shamo] begins to weep with emotion. He and his wife already have eight children and sixteen grandchildren but are now responsible for all the young missionaries in their area. “I’m the mom,” Tracy says proudly. They hadthe missionaries shovelling snow-filled driveways last week. “We don’t want them to become Bible bashers or stand in people’s way in the street,” Lyle says. “We tell them to always be respectful.”
Mormonism places Jesus Christ in the centre of its beliefs. But the Church’s independent brand of Christianity is not always recognisable to other denominations. “For a Christian, the gospels stand and Jesus is the final and ultimate revelation. We don’t add other books as they have,” says the Rev John Goddard, Bishop of Burnley, “But I would want to emphasise the quality of some of their people.”
Steven Hughes, the interfaith development officer for Churches Together in Lancashire, says that Mormons “are the one group who rarely cross my radar”. He lives just eight miles from the Temple Complex, but rarely sees the missionaries out and about.
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As he describes the Church’s belief that the family unit endures eternally, Lyle [Shamo] begins to weep with emotion. He and his wife already have eight children and sixteen grandchildren but are now responsible for all the young missionaries in their area. “I’m the mom,” Tracy says proudly. They hadthe missionaries shovelling snow-filled driveways last week. “We don’t want them to become Bible bashers or stand in people’s way in the street,” Lyle says. “We tell them to always be respectful.”
Mormonism places Jesus Christ in the centre of its beliefs. But the Church’s independent brand of Christianity is not always recognisable to other denominations. “For a Christian, the gospels stand and Jesus is the final and ultimate revelation. We don’t add other books as they have,” says the Rev John Goddard, Bishop of Burnley, “But I would want to emphasise the quality of some of their people.”
Steven Hughes, the interfaith development officer for Churches Together in Lancashire, says that Mormons “are the one group who rarely cross my radar”. He lives just eight miles from the Temple Complex, but rarely sees the missionaries out and about.
Read it all.