Jesus sent the disciples out "two by two" to share the Gospel with the lost:
Mark 6:7 "
Calling the Twelve to him, he [Jesus] began to send them out two by two and gave them authority over impure spirits."
I do know exactly what post your responding to and the posts prior to that - I have a little reading comprehension most of the time anyway, praise God - and I believe my post was perfectly appropriate in response to what you said to a brother in Christ who paraphrased a Bible verse in Christian encouragement.
@ReverendRV used Biblical phrasing (from Luke and Mark) in order to express that we, as Calvinists, should share the Gospel - which we should do and do actually do .. (I have noted this myself from personal experience, despite apparent public opinion to the contrary).
There's nothing unbiblical about Christians sharing the Gospel - it's a command for the
Church until the end of time.
This command doesn't change because of the mormons or what they do, we don't freak out because heretics do something the Bible calls for, we simply follow the command of God for us, that is found within the pages in accordance with reason.
Your suggestion to ignore Jesus sending His disciples out "two by two" to share the Gospel because the mormons have taken Bible verses to a crazy extreme is not looking to Scripture for Christian conduct - it's looking to mormons and saying we should ignore Scripture because that's what the mormons do. Islam proselytizes too, we don't stop just because others do what we do - they copied from us, not vice versa. In the what came first game it is definitely us. The
Torah (also called the "
Law") and the
Prophets and
my Lord absolutely came demonstrably first, prior to the false prophets and antichrists of our day.
Yes,
@ReverendRV is a proponent of, at the end of the sermon on a Sunday, having a pastor calling people to the front to "accept Jesus" (or something - I have not actually seen this in person), this is called an alter call, and there's some differing opinions about just how biblical or effective the idea of this call is.
@Carbon set his foot down on the side of absolute no, never ever,
@Arial pretty much the same,
@Josheb and
@ReverendRV are on the side of a more Biblical yes, with caveats.
I find myself too new a Christian to have a real opinion here though I would side with orthodoxy in the end, if called to set an opinion down in stone. There's a comfort in not confronting crazy and everything really is a slippery slope so I get the foot down dad moves even though done right it's not a horrible idea.
I like Paul Washer's opinion on the topic myself really, he had a good middle - on a rare occasion when moved by the Spirit absolutely yes, and otherwise and the way people like Graham does it absolutely not.
But I now digress... In short,
@ReverendRV paraphrasing from Scripture to bring a point he was wanting to make forward is something real Christians do everyday, and "Mormon's and JW's" simply do not enter the equation, they weren't invited to the conversation in general and their behavior just doesn't even matter to the conversation, especially when the conversation is about our Christian conduct and what the Bible says.
He never once said " hey the mormons do this unbiblical thing so let's copy them..." Which your reaction would imply. Nope, that never happened.
All
@ReverendRV referenced was a BIBLE verse...and you had an issue with God's word.
