Defending the Truth

I once had the opportunity to speak briefly to a large Mormon audience at the Tabernacle in Salt Lake City. I told them that I feel badly about the fact that we evangelicals often tell Mormons what they believe without showing them the courtesy of actually asking them what they believe. 

I said that when we do that kind of thing we risk bearing false witness against our neighbors, and that evangelicals have often done that with people with whom we disagree. I apologized for that pattern of sinful behavior, while adding…