There goes half of every ward.Jesus wrote:Be careful not to practice your righteousness in front of others to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.
Tithing settlement anyone?Jesus wrote:So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.
I'm sure Jesus was thinking of General/Stake Conferences being broadcast around the world when he said not to babble like pagans...Jesus wrote:And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words. Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.
Kind of strange Mormons just ignore this plain directive from the Savior?Jesus wrote:This, then, is how you should pray:
‘Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name...'
Mormons turn this into a trite game every Fast Sunday.Jesus wrote:When you fast, do not look somber as the hypocrites do, for they disfigure their faces to show others they are fasting. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. But when you fast, put oil on your head and wash your face, so that it will not be obvious to others that you are fasting, but only to your Father, who is unseen; and your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.
Jesus wrote:Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.
Ensign Peak fund.
Food storage, hoarding money for a "rainy day," ect ect ectJesus wrote:Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?
Who is the Jesus Mormonism worships? Because it's certainly not the one portrayed in the Gospels...
You don't even need the doctrine of "Sola Scriptura" to realize the plain message Jesus was trying to get across. Humanity is worried about the wrong things. They have it completely backwards. And it's very hard to fix that backwardness. Mormonism doesn't even try to. It falls into the same traps Jesus was constantly warning against: legalism, materialism, idolatry, leader worship, hoarding wealth, being worried about public image, about personal health, on and on and on.
Every Christian religion falls short of Jesus' message. But Mormonism seems particularly blind to what He was trying to say.
