She suggests this as a challenge to a Christian’s own heart and satisfaction (are we truly satisfied in Christ), and as a challenge to the Mormon we are speaking to (Causing them to ask is Christ more satisfying than the Mormon faith).

Listen here to Laytane Scott and David Murray discuss Mormonism

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Do you want to know the root and spring of humility?
One word describes it. The root of humility is right knowledge.

The person who really knows himself and his own heart,
who knows God and his infinite majesty and holiness,
who knows Christ and the price at which he was redeemed,
that person will never be a proud person.

He will count himself, like Jacob, unworthy of the least
of all God’s mercies. He will say of himself, like Job,
“I am unworthy.” He will cry, like Paul, “I am the worst
of sinners” He will consider others better than himself
(Philippians 2:3).

Ignorance–nothing but sheer ignorance, ignorance of
self, of God, and of Christ–is the real secret of pride.

From that miserable self-ignorance may we daily pray
to be delivered. The wise person knows himself and
will find nothing within to make him proud.

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Selfishness is one telltale sign of immaturity. Babies are completely self-centered. They scream if they don’t get what they want when they want it. All they are aware of are their own needs and desires. They never say thanks for anything. They can’t help others; they can’t give anything. They can only receive.

And certainly there’s nothing wrong with that when it occurs in the natural stage of infancy. But to see a child whose development is arrested so that he never gets beyond that stage of helpless selfishness—that is a tragedy.

And that is exactly the spiritual state of multitudes in the church today. They are utterly preoccupied with self. They want their own problems solved and their own comfort elevated. Their spiritual development is arrested, and they remain in a perpetual state of selfish helplessness. It is evidence of a tragic abnormality.

From an article “The Marks of Immaturity”

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The Local Church
If you neglect the church, you neglect your soul. Your attitude towards the priority of a local church reveals much about the condition of your soul and whether you are really part of the body of Christ. One of the first signs of backsliding toward apostasy is neglecting meeting with the brethren faithfully. If you don’t love the church that Christ died for, then it’s an evidence that you’re probably unregenerate. You cannot be connected to the Vine without being among the branches.
Can you say honestly with your heart: “I need my church?” If you have access to a Biblical church, you are without excuse if you neglect it.

-Mack Tomlinson

(HT:JF)

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Charles Spurgeon

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What would be worse? If there was a church with terrible teaching and therefore there was very little Christians action? Or if there was a church with wonderful Biblical teaching and yet there was little Christian action?

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“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket- safe, dark, motionless, airless–it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.”

We were not meant to keep our life and heart intact, but to be broken and redeemed.

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