Our Mission Trip to Utah

This spring break, I had the privilege to go to Salt Lake City, Utah, with our college and young adult group. Our purpose was to fulfill the Great Commission by engaging in conversations with the students at the University of Utah. One group that we focused on was the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. At first glance, you would think the LDS members would be Christians. A couple of differences we see in our faith versus theirs: we believe Jesus is a part of one Godhead, the Trinity. The LDS church believes Jesus is one god of many gods, created by Heavenly Father and Mother. We believe as we trust in Christ and have Him in us, we are credited the righteousness of God from our moment of salvation, as written in 2 Corinthians 5:21, “God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.” The LDS believe we are continually striving for the righteousness of Christ, that at some point we hopefully earn that right. These issues have the LDS chasing after a false Christ, leading only to eternal separation from God.

My heart has been broken for these people, and I hope as you read this, yours does too. We served alongside Ben and Maggie Sutton, who are the leaders of the western U.S. version of BCM called Christian Challenge. Sharing the Gospel comes with a lot of rejection, but many good conversations were had! I and a few others that were on the trip are still in contact with some of the people we met on campus, answering questions they may have and referring them to the on-campus ministry.

I hope we will pray for the groups of lost people who are far into indoctrination, and that they find the true Christ revealed in Scripture.