Nothing puts the Christian in a Mormon like Oklahoma.
I received a text message this week from an old investigator. We had parted ways a transfer ago, strong in our separate faiths but glad to have a known each other. Here is what she said:
"Sister Stewart, are you still in OKC?"
I responded with a positive affirmation.
"Just wanted you to know that my house church has been praying for you this week. Blessings!"
Christian, indeed! Her small nondenominational congregation spent the week praying for the Mormon missionaries! Hers is not the first example of inter-religious outreach here in Oklahoma. We pray with a pastor or preacher from a local church, only to have him turn the table and pray for us. A woman last week ran after us and begged us to take a generous monetary donation to help us in our ministry. A gruff, bearded military retiree gave us his phone number and a standing offer to take us out to dinner whenever our dinner appointment falls through.
None of these folk have been terribly receptive to the Book of Mormon (*yet), but they assure one young sister missionary from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints that the Book of Mormon speaks truth:
"When ye are in the service of your fellow beings, ye are only in the service of your God. For behold, are we not all beggars? Do we not all depend upon the same Being, even God, for all the substance which we have...O then, how ye ought to impart...one to another." (Mosiah 2:17; 4:19-21)
Thank you, dear Oklahoma, for inspiring me to become a more Christian Christian!
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