Pastor Jeff McCullough has just posted his latest video about the Church, in which he doesn’t say anything controversial that needs to be addressed. He has made one minor error, however, that I will correct. At 1:31 minutes into the video he says the following about the calling of the missionaries:
“… somewhere between the age of 19 and 26 they will get a calling from the church, they are told where to go, and they serve on that mission and it is pretty rigorous.”
That is not quite correct. Missionaries volunteer to go on missions. Once they have decided to go, however, and submitted their names, they are then called and assigned to a specific location to serve. All worthy and qualified Church members are encouraged to serve missions; but the choice is always theirs.
It looks like Pastor Jeff has had his fingers burned dabbling in controversial theological stuff, and is now trying to avoid controversy as much as possible! It is possible to do that, but it requires quite a bit of ingenuity and resilience to be able to do it. You can’t forever be talking about churches, buildings, temples, airports, missionaries, and pioneers in Utah!
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