Tonight, our doorbell rang and it caught us offguard. Because we had asparagus for dinner, I was struck with the thought that the big kids had figured out how to order pizza, but they denied that. It wasn't time for the neighbor to stop by, so who was at our door. My top three investigators flew to the scene to find two stunned Morman girls standing on the outside of the open door. My kids were deep into the interrogation when I arrived and when I saw the very helpful nametags, I just shook my head and said, "We are Baptist." They had their sales pitch pretty refined, adding, "We don't want to take anything away from that. Do you pray as a family?"
Carlie took that question, "We do sometimes, but sometimes James is cranky and has to go to bed. And sometimes, James hits us when we close our eyes to pray."
On que, James hit me to demonstrate.
Then, the visitors said to me, "The scriptures say, 'Pray in your families unto the Father, always in my name, that your wives and your children may be blessed.'"
I had a confused look on my face because I had never heard this before and then she added, "that is from the Book of Mormon." This seemed to be a good time to repeat, "We are Baptists. I believe in the Bible. If you want to become Baptists, I can talk with you the rest of the night."
They went on to explain, that they didn't want to take anything away from our Baptistness, just add to it. I then added, I believe only the Bible. They said the Book of Mormon added to the Bible and I had to tell them that my Bible didn't need additions and actually prohibited them in Revelation 22.
Now, they seemed sure I wasn't going to become a Mormon and they seemed pretty sure they didn't want to be Baptist, so they tried to leave a book of Mormon and I said no. They tried to leave a card and I told them they were wasting their time, but I would take it if it were good for a cup of coffee (I forgot that they are against coffee -knowing I am Baptist, they should have asked for a drink of whiskey to pay me back:-). At this point, they gave up.
I asked them if they needed a drink of water (not coffee) and they declined and went on their way. If you really want some interesting study, look up why Mormons don't drink coffee and don't use tobacco. It is nothing that you will find in Leviticus:-)
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