I've worked with a young LDS (Mormon) man for about 2 1/2 years now. Today was his last day. I have witnessed to him in clear and abstract ways for the entire time he's spent with us. I had talked with him at length for many months and proved to him using the Bible, that despite what many people had told him that Jesus made distinct his claim to Godhood. I showed him verses where others were willing to stone Him for making Himself equal with God. I showed him where, after His resurrection, Thomas called Him, "My Lord and my God."

I shared the Gospel message with him and I took the time to have conversations with him about it so that he could ingeminate what he's heard from me.

This young man came to church with me several times and even told me that it was hard, changing from one "religion" to another, (meaning from Mormonism to Christianity.) He even began to wear a cross that he bought at a local Bible bookstore. I had several conversations with my wife at that time and after discussing it with her I told her I just did not believe he had quite come to the place where he had met Jesus and actually given his heart to Him. Then came the day he met a young woman whom, after less that four days he called the love of his life.

She was an active LDS member and that was pretty much it. Over. Done. In less than three weeks they were engaged to be married and in barely over two months they were married. When he came to me and told me of their engagement, he had done a complete flip-flop on what he told me he'd believed. I said to him, "So, you're going to embrace Mormonism?" His answer was a yes, because he said that he had had it explained to him that all of the things he had questioned about Mormonism would all be explained to him when he participated in and completed the "Temple Endowment Ceremony."

I have read the entire "Temple Endowment Ceremony," and it is one of the most ridiculously un-Biblical and blasphemous documents that I have ever read. Any believing Christian who knows their Bible would spot it as the cultic work of manipulative fiction that it is. If they'd never heard of Mormonism before, their response would be something like, "What is this? This is a joke right?" It isn't a joke. It is however, one of the tools that was used in this case to draw this man further away from the true Christ of the Bible, and deeper into a cultic existence.

When he told me he was going to go through the endowment ceremony, I talked with a man at my church who had been a Mormon for most of his life. He'd met Jesus through some coworkers on the job and they had finally confronted him and told him that he had been given and knew the truth, and asked him what he was going to do with it? They must have been following the leading of the Holy Spirit, because he gave his heart to Christ and he's become a man with a strong walk in the Lord and whose experience speaks to others hearts. He told me that he could give my coworker the "Temple Endowment Ceremony," and that he could explain to him how it was all about manipulation and emotional blackmail. Unfortunately, this wasn't to be.

My coworker hid the date of he and his wife's ceremony from me and when I asked him why he hadn't said anything to me, he said he figured that I wouldn't have anything good to say about it. I had to admit to myself that that was probably true. Even at that I wouldn't have been so obnoxious as to tell him what a mistake he was making, and I think he knew that. I would've asked him questions. So that is what I proceeded to do. I asked him several questions regarding things like the aberrant version of creation where Michael (presumably the archangel) along with Jesus do the work of the creation and also how Michael himself was turned into Adam. This is of course at complete variance to what Brigham Young taught, namely that God the Father became Adam. I asked him several questions and his answer to me was that he couldn't answer any of them. I reminded him that he had told me that his questions would all be taken care of by what he learned in the ceremony. He said he still had a lot to learn. He said he might have to go through it again someday before he knew what he needed to know.

My heart sort of hurt today when I shook his hand, hugged him, and said goodbye. I wished him good luck and told him that I loved him. I do. I really do. I wish he knew Jesus.