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Jeffress quickly makes headlines in Dallas

It didn't take long for our old buddy, Robert Jeffress, to make headlines in Dallas.
Give this guy credit, he knows how to get folks riled up.
And sometimes -- the headlines he makes -- don't really say what he said.
That just throws gasoline on the fire.

For instance, the headline on the Dallas Morning News web site read:
"Dallas Minister: Vote for a Christian, not Mitt Romney."

Close, but wrong.

What the former First Baptist Hooterville Falls and now First Baptist Dallas pastor said in his Sept. 30 sermon was: "If a person is supporting Romney, that's fine. But don't confuse him with being a Christian."

Romney, a Republican candidate for president, is a Mormon.
Baptists, like Jeffress, believe the Mormon church is a cult.
That's not news.

"Cult," to me is too strong of a word.
Jim Jones purple Kool-Aid drinkers were a cult
David Koresh's Branch Davidians were a cult.
Heaven's Gate was a cult.

To lump the Mormons in with those nuts is just wrong.

But, like Jeffress, I also don't believe the Mormon Church is really a Christian church.

If Jeffress were to tell everyone that the Bible is the Word of God -- BUT that he has written a new book -- "The Book of Bob" that we need to look upon as addition to that Word and believe just like they believe the Bible -- well, that's what Mormonism is all about.
Joseph Smith declared himself a latter day prophet and added the "Book of Mormon" to the Bible.

You will find many Mormons to be much more moral than Christians.
Mitt Romney may even be more moral than Robert Jeffress.
But being good, moral person doesn't make a person a Christian.

At the same time being a Christian certainly doesn't always make a person a good president.
See George W. Bush.

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