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Mormon church lowers age requirements for missionaries

Mormon leaders on Saturday lowered the age requirements for full-time missionaries in a change that could swell the ranks of the church's messengers around the world.

All 18-year-old men in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will now be allowed to serve missions and women can do so at the age of 19, Thomas Monson, the church's president, told members at a conference in Salt Lake City.

The previous age requirements for serving as Mormon missionaries was 19 for men and 21 for women. ...

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10/7/12 2:48 PM

Jim Lincoln

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Matthew 23
15 "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you travel about on sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of hell as yourselves.---NASB

I hope mature Christians get a chance to explain to these immature men that Roman Catholics, Mormons and Jehovah Witnesses don't belong to Christ and no, We're Christians just like you!

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