New guide advises Evangelicals on how to talk to Mormons

Richard Mouw never intended to start a riot within the Evangelical community by saying his fellow believers had “sinned against Mormonism.” But that’s exactly what happened.

Mouw, president of Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, Calif., had been meeting regularly with LDS scholars before he gave a seven-minute introduction of Ravi Zacharias, an Evangelical speaker who addressed a packed audience in the Mormon Tabernacle in November 2004.

“We’ve often seriously misrepresented the beliefs and practices of members of the LDS faith,” Mouw said that Sunday night. “It’s a terrible thing to bear false witness.”

The impact was immediate.

Some of Mouw’s colleagues and fellow believers were outraged. They accused him of selling out, of not standing for the Christian truth or adequately denouncing evil, of being duped.

Undeterred, Mouw continued this line of preaching to Evangelicals for the next seven years and maintained his regular conversations with Mormons. He has now expanded it into a just-released book, Talking with Mormons: An Invitation to Evangelicals.
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