testing 123 testing 123 this is radio free Mormon on the air broadcasting behind enemy

lines tonight's episode my debate with a church of Christ minister most of you

are aware that I engaged in a public debate with the midnight Mormons back in

November of 2021 but that is not the first debate that I have engaged in this

is a little known incident and I don't think I've mentioned it before about a

debate that I was engaged in back in 1990 with a church of Christ minister now

I admit this church of Christ minister back in 1989 and as many of you do

know this is at the end of the decade when I was up to my eyeballs in Mormon

apologetics in fact in the spring semester of 1989 I taught an institute

class on the subject of defending the faith and that is an institute class that I

created the curriculum and drew up all 12 lessons there were no correlated

church-produced materials that I was going from in fact back in the 1980s it

was extremely frustrating for me because I had spent all this time getting

myself ready to be able to debate other people on the subject of Mormonism and

yet at that same time we were getting multiple directives from Salt Lake City

that members of the church were not repeat not supposed to be engaging in

debates this was frustrating to me not only because I wanted to debate and I

felt like I was ready willing and able to debate but also I was a bit

disappointed because I thought why is the church acting like it has something to

hide something to be embarrassed of like it will get its clock cleaned if any of

its members ever go out and publicly debate somebody from another religion

looking back on it now I see this as yet another instance of the church not

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