A Mormon First: Minorities Join the Twelve Apostles

[Jerome]

The LDS Church had two vacant Apostle positions after the the recent deaths of Apostle Hales and President Monson:

Mormon Church Selects 2 Senior Leaders

"For the first time in its nearly 200-year history, the Mormon Church on Saturday appointed a person of color into the upper echelons of its leadership, a group that has previously been occupied by white men."

"Gerrit W. Gong, who is Chinese-American, will join the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles...the Church also selected its first-ever Latin American apostle, Ulisses Soares, a Brazilian."

"Because the presidency is filled by the longest-serving member of the quorum, the two newest apostles could eventually gain enough seniority to occupy the highest position within the church"

"There are a few black men serving on the Quorums of the Seventy, the church’s second-tier group of leaders...until 1978, it did not ordain black men to its priesthood or allow black men or women to participate in important rituals. The rules changed, the church said, when top leaders prayed and received a revelation that everyone deserved inclusion."

Newly appointed Apostles Soares (Latin American) and Gong (Asian American):

 

[Saved-By-Grace]

Mormonism=Satanism

 

[Yeshua1]

The LDS Church had two vacant Apostle positions after the the recent deaths of Apostle Hales and President Monson:

Mormon Church Selects 2 Senior Leaders

"For the first time in its nearly 200-year history, the Mormon Church on Saturday appointed a person of color into the upper echelons of its leadership, a group that has previously been occupied by white men."

"Gerrit W. Gong, who is Chinese-American, will join the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles...the Church also selected its first-ever Latin American apostle, Ulisses Soares, a Brazilian."

"Because the presidency is filled by the longest-serving member of the quorum, the two newest apostles could eventually gain enough seniority to occupy the highest position within the church"

"There are a few black men serving on the Quorums of the Seventy, the church’s second-tier group of leaders...until 1978, it did not ordain black men to its priesthood or allow black men or women to participate in important rituals. The rules changed, the church said, when top leaders prayed and received a revelation that everyone deserved inclusion."

Newly appointed Apostles Soares (Latin American) and Gong (Asian American):

Still amazing that God had to wait until 1978 to tell them that Blacks are just as important and just as saved as whites are!

 

[Baptist Believer]

Mormonism=Satanism

Mormonism is a satanic deception, but it is not the same thing as satanism.

 

[Saved-By-Grace]

Mormonism is a satanic deception, but it is not the same thing as satanism.

its roots are from the father of lies. If they do not worship the One True Triuine God of the Holy Bible, then they worship satan.

 

[Baptist Believer]

its roots are from the father of lies. If they do not worship the One True Triuine God of the Holy Bible, then they worship satan.

I have ministered to both Mormons and self-styled satanists. They are both tremendously deceived and equally in need of God's grace. Lumping the two together merely confuses things.

Ministry to Mormons and ministry to self-styled satanists takes different methods. In my experience, satanists are actually easier to work with. They are more in-the-moment and have less intellectual baggage to sort through.