The knock at our door

Last night just before dinner there was a knock at our back door. As usual our two dogs barked up a storm, fortunately it doesn't take much to calm them down. Their combined weight is less than 14 pounds. Once the noise had subsided, Tiffany opened the door to find two missionaries from the Mormon church on our porch.

I'm not sure what it is about is. It seems that we attract Mormons like moths to a light. Tiff invited the two of them in, gave them some water and Dunkaroos, and we chatted a bit. As has been the case in the past, they were excited to hear that we have a Book of Mormon and that we have been visited by missionaries before. I think in their minds this means that we are ripe for conversion. We were quite honest with them and told about how we have been blacklisted by the Mormon church and how previous missionaries who had visited us were split up and sent away.

Despite this news, they made an appointment to come back Thursday evening. Right now I think it is 50/50 whether they will actually show up or not. The last missionaries that visited us just stopped coming one day. I think they were tired of our questions and wasting their time with two people who were never going to join their church.

If they do come we will be hospitable and kind. We will also ask questions and share what we believe. I figure if they are going to come and share their beliefs we should be allowed to share ours.

I don't get the same charge out of visits from the Mormon missionaries that I used to. Back in the day when we were going to a conservative evangelical church and putting the "fun" in fundamentalism, I figured that I would dazzle them with my eloquence and drive them to their knees in repentance. I didn't want to be their friend, I wanted to convert them as badly as they wanted to convert me.

I don't have an agenda anymore, I'm not looking to bring them into a "Bible believing church" because I have no time or patience for church. Now I just want to be a nice guy who loves Jesus.

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[urbanmonk]

Is there such a thing as a nice guy who loves Jesus?