A Peacemaker in Provo
How one Pentecostal pastor taught his Congregation to love Mormons.
By Dean Merrill | posted 2/07/2000 12:00AM

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Dean Merrill is vice president and publisher of the International Bible Society in Colorado Springs.
Related Elsewhere
See today's related stories on Mormonism, "The Mormon-Evangelical Divide," "Mere Mormonism | Journalist Richard Ostling explores LDS culture, theology, and fans of 'crypto-Mormon' C.S. Lewis," and "Mormons, Evangelicals Tangle Over Web Site."
An article about Jackson and Rock Canyon Assembly in last year's Brigham Young University newspaper, "Local church and BYU religion faculty seek to promote understanding," also includes audio.
Rock Canyon Assembly is online at http://www.rockcanyon.org/.
Last August, the Salt Lake Tribunepublished an article about how churches, including Rock Canyon Assembly, were working together in events surrounding the 2002 Winter Olympics in that city.
For more on Mormonism and Evangelical-Mormon relations, see our June 15, 1998 cover story, "Mormons on the Rise | Southern Baptists Take Up the Mormon Challenge." Other past news stories include:
Reorganized Latter Day Saints Aim to Grow After Revising Doctrines(Sept. 7, 1998)
Mormon Church Suspends Construction in Ecuador(Mar. 2, 1998)
Suit Challenges Religion Classes Credit(January 12. 1998)
Evangelists Sue Utah Authorities(Nov. 11, 1996)
Previous Christianity Todayarticles by Dean Merrill include:
The Education of Ed Dobson | How a lieutenant in the Moral Majority rediscovered the power of the local church. (Aug. 11, 1997)
Not Married-with-Children | When we segregate people according to age or marital status, we miss the true meaning of church. (July 14, 1997)
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