# WHY WOULD THE PASTOR OF A PROMINENT CHRISTIAN CHURCH IN SALT LAKE CITY TAKE A VISITING SPEAKER TO MEET A FALSE APOSTLE OF JESUS CHRIST?

Last night I had the privilege of listening to somebody that had studied in England the works of C.S. Lewis. He was an expert on what this man wrote and what his views were. This writer has been mentioned a lot lately in many Christian churches because of the fact that he was an atheist and then became a Christian. 4/5 of what he earned he gave away and 100% of what he made off the sell of his books he also gave away. When he was asked why he gave away too much he simply responded by saying that “God was so good in having me, the least I could do was give away most of what I made in His name”. This speaker started his talk by mentioning that the pastor of this church that invited him to do this talk took him to visit an “apostle” and was warned to not give him a bear hug when he saw him. He was warned that this person needed to be treated with the respect that he deserved because there are only about 15 men in the world that have the privilege of being called an apostle of Jesus Christ. Being called one is one thing but truly being a “real” one might be another. When the time came to ask some questions I raised my hand and asked him why he desired to meet this so-called apostle. His response was simple coming from a well- educated man but not knowing much about this church that had this man as one of their apostles. He just mentioned that being a Christian he had no issues in meeting many different people in this world and I completely agreed with him. I didn’t want to continue asking him any more questions because I just felt that he went where he was told to go and didn’t ask for any explanation of why he went to meet who he met. My thoughts then went to the pastor of this prominent local Christian church that has many ex-Mormons come to their services and tell him their sad stories of abandonment and banishment and even maybe excommunication from a church that claims to be the only true church on the face of this earth and all other churches are an abomination in the eyes of the Lord. I can imagine that not just any Tom, Dick and Harry can just call up the LDS church offices and ask to visit with one of their apostles. I most likely think that they would only reserve this privilege with important people that they can make themselves shine because they will be meeting with those of their same feathers. They can’t waste their time seeing just common ordinary people in this world. They can’t associate with the least because they communicate with God every day and they know what He wants them to do for Him. I can’t believe that this pastor has to brown nose the leaders of this church because they have so much money, power and influence in this state. He must feel good preaching about the Bible knowing that this church doesn’t believe that it is true and then going and sitting down with one of them to “honor” his position and title in this church. I wonder if while he was there he told this apostle about the “real” Jesus of the Bible. I wonder if he preached to him the “real” gospel of Jesus Christ. Maybe he thought that since this man thinks that someday he will also become a god that he might start paying tribute to him sooner. This way he might get him to give God a good word for him so that he can also receive his reward when he gets to Heaven. I wonder what the congregation would do if they found out this Christmas Eve that their pastor had done this with this person?