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By Morgan Lee , Christian Post Reporter
January 20, 2014|1:01 pm
(Courtesy of Ravi Zacharias International Ministries/Ben Ian May)
Christian apologist Ravi Zacharias speaks at the Mormon Temple in Salt Lake City, Utah, on Saturday, Jan. 18, 2014.
Christian
apologist and writer Ravi Zacharias addressed 3,500 evangelicals and
Mormons at the LDS Tabernacle in Salt Lake City, Utah, asking that
people from the two faiths stand together to oppose "relativism" and
"lost morality."
The two-day "Freedom
and Friendship" event held last Friday and Saturday marked the second
time that Zacharias had spoken at the Tabernacle. The apologist's first
meeting occurred 10 years ago, when he became the first non-Mormon
speaker in the Tabernacle in 105 years.
Zacharias' focused on how
Christians and Mormons should make sense of a culture that increasingly
relies on a "pragmatic philosophy with no accountability," during his
talk on Saturday.Opening with the story of King Manasseh, found in both 2 Kings and 2 Chronicles, Zacharias pointed to the story as an example of the "dangers of relativism and lost morality," reported KSL.
"When you only do whatever works, really nothing works...We must build our lives upon things that are eternal," the apologist said.
"We talk so much about one's rights, that we talk so little about what is actually right. It's an alarming trend. … There is only one angle at which you can stand straight and many, many different angles at which you can fall," Zacharias added.
Zacharias also put the onus on evangelicals and Mormons to first change themselves—through reading the Bible and asking God to "make you right with Him" before seeking to change culture."
"Once we do that, the world will see the beauty that is Christ and want to follow him," he said, reported The Salt Lake City Tribune.
Zacharias' talk was presented by Standing Together,
a coalition of evangelical Churches who seek to "be a catalyst for
uniting the Utah Christian community through relational efforts of
prayer, worship, and strategic evangelism."
Among
its outreach efforts are organizing "LDS/evangelical scholarly
dialogues" and providing "resources for interfaith dialogue." The
coalition also helped organize Zacharias' 2004 event.
Standing
Together President Rev. Gregory Johnson told audience members on
Saturday that the conference was an opportunity for Mormons and
Christians to gather and acknowledge their common interests.
"Tonight
is another night for us to meet … not as warring factions, but as
friends," said Johnson."We have significant theological differences. We
don't undermine that, but tonight is an opportunity to hear from a great
Christian leader to hear about a topic we all care about — freedom of
religion."
Church elder and former president of Brigham Young
University Jeffrey Holland introduced Zacharias and credited Mormons'
and Christians' "shared love for the Lord Jesus Christ" for bringing
them together "in true brotherhood and sisterhood tonight and always.""While thus standing together, we also stand for our love of and need for the religious freedom that guarantees our right to teach and live by the truths of the Gospel of Jesus Christ," Holland said.
