So excited about the new podcast! Any guest suggestions?

My wife and I had the (completely random) opportunity to meet Pastor Jeff last week. He took a few minutes to talk to us. Thank you Jeff! You were gracious enough to stop to talk to us, you were respectful, and it was a pleasure to meet you. Keep the videos coming. As a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, we will see differently sometimes, but that's ok. I like to focus on the faith and beliefs we have in common. 👍⭐

I've been a member of the LDS faith for over 45 years now (convert). To the best of my knowledge, Latter-Day Saints simply don't disparage other faith communities. In fact, we are profoundly appreciative of their faith, love of God, love of others around them, and their strife to betterment, and reaching up while on their knees. I simply do not understand why so many other Christian groups choose to attack the latter-day saints. Let's dialog tons about our differences ...but there shouldn't be any room for darts or ill will .

My brother-in-law used to have to go to Sweden for work. Once, a Swede that he worked with would tell him what they thought about Americans. Then his coworker asked "What do Americans think of Swedes?" He answered, "We don't really think of Swedes". This anecdote comes to mind when I hear about evangelicals talking about LDS people. Growing up LDS, (on the east coast) we rarely talked about other religions. I find it strange that you think that that's a focus of ours when it's not. We focus on Christ, improving ourselves, and strengthening our families and relationships

When you’re a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints you learn to build certain walls of defense up because it feels like you are being attacked at various times by every other group around you. There are ex LDS, anti LDS, other Christians, and the secular world throwing barbs -sometimes all at the same time. In all my years of being an active member of the church, it seems like there are few occasions to have a productive sincere conversation with someone outside of the faith or from someone who has left the faith that doesn’t either try to undermine or disparage our beliefs. I’ve even felt that sometimes people will put up a veneer of friendliness only to be subtly trying to undermine your faith or the church itself. I think an interfaith dialogue with sincere conversations without trying to undermine beliefs would be very interesting and productive. I’ve always felt that I wanted to reach out to other Christians because I share so much of their same beliefs and faith, but it seems that every effort to do so leads to the same place of slinging pejoratives.

As a Protestant living in Utah, I have learned so much from this channel. Living here for the last 8 years has opened my eyes to misinformation or incomplete information I had about the LDS faith, but that has grown exponentially since I came across your channel last year. Thank you for sharing your journey and thanks to all the LDS members that have come on your channel to clear things up.

Thanks for this. As a member of the Church of Jesus Christ, with extended family of evangelical and protestant variety, I was raised to believe that we're all on the same page with our love for and adoration of Christ-- whatever the religion. I see and honor all acts of faith from all walks of it. We're all just walking each other home, I feel that so passionately. I really appreciate people like yourself who carry that spirit of edification and brotherhood. There have been a few times I've had negative feelings watching your videos, usually when some of your explanations come across as condescending and put me in some outlandish category of christianity or make me feel less Christian than I really am. I forgive you for that and am grateful for your continued efforts to bridge the gap and establish brotherhood. We as fellow believers need each other so dearly!

I appreciate this, as a LDS member, from my anecdotal experience evangelical Christians have been bully’s unwilling to learn about our faith, and quick to condemn. I am sure evangelicals may say the same about us. You have really been a bridge between our faiths and although we disagree on many things you are showing we can still love one another and be friends without an agenda.

On the topic of casually condemning another: Many years ago, a co-worker came into my office and started a conversation by asking, "How do you know that you are saved?" To this day, I have no idea what prompted that question, but it led to a good conversation about the LDS view of salvation and being born again. He ended the conversation by sharing his views on salvation. We are saved, he told me, if God chooses to save us. He knew he was saved because God had chosen him for salvation. And, since God had not chosen me (or any of my Mormon family and friends), I would go to hell. My co-worker told me he was fine with my being damned, because, if he felt otherwise, he'd be putting his desires over God's. Bless his heart.

Hello Pastor Jeff; I want to whole heartedly express my support for your current mission. I am an LDS member, but I'm not sitting around hoping you and Joy join up; although if you did I would celebrate enthusiastically for you. I also completely believe you when you say you are not trying to "provide offramps". What I see you doing now is using your credibility as an Evangelical Pastor to show other faiths that, while our doctrines are not exactly the same as yours, we are also not the demonic cult that some think we are. I grew up in a non-denominational church, but most Latter Day Saints really don't know that much about your faith, so I think your insight is also valuable for that reason. This may be exactly what we need from you and others like you right now. Our nation and our world are heading into what looks like some seriously hard times and we need like minded friends to help each other through even though we have small disagreements on doctrine. I appreciate your approach of honestly comparing and contrasting our differences. I also appreciate that you point out where you agree with much of our doctrine and I think that we agree on much more than we disagree.

I am attending a Bible study at an all black Baptist Church. Actually the only time that I have missed for the last 4 years is because of time conflicts. We all feel the love between us and never have ever engaged in debate or have had any awkward moments. And they extended a request for teachers and after the open discussion I asked the pastor if I was allowed to teach, and he even extended the offer to me. I have also been called upon to pray before the congregation a couple of times.

Hi Jeff, I am LDS convert of many years because of a very special spiritual experience when I prayed to find the true church. God answered my prayer in a profound way and continues to answer my prayers today. I did not have the strength to live the commandments of not drinking alcohol etc.. But I did know God lived and he reached out to me through Jehovah's Witnesses and then Born Again Christians. Studying and worshipping with born again Christians was a great help studying the bible and developing my faith in Jesus and understanding his grace and love. May I suggest if you want success..... work with the lapsed LDS people who struggle with commandments such as the word of wisdom and non members, give them great faith in Jesus, keep it simple and don't preach anti Mormon stuff. As you preach Jesus with love and respect for your new neighbours you can be a great instrument in Gods hands. I know the LDS church is the true church of Jesus and it will take a leading role at the second coming of Jesus which may be close, but if you bring people closer to Jesus you will also be blessed. Preach Jesus while respecting the church.

We have so much to do as disciples of Christ to prepare ourselves and the world for His return. Our differences need to be respected and sought with curiosity rather than contention if we are going to have a broken heart and contrite spirit, a true disciple’s heart, at his return. Satan wants to label and divide us, thus leading us away from power of unity in Christ. This approach allows us to link arms in defense of Christ against the devil and prepare our world for Jesus’s return. Keep up the great work Jeff and Joy!

Jeff and Joy, keep up the great work. As a lifelong active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints I appreciate you and how you sincerely have sought to understand a faith and culture different than your own. As you have been building bridges between faiths that are different in many ways I appreciate how you identify similarities namely that all our faiths originate with and are focused foremost on our love for our Savior Jesus Christ. You seek understanding in a respectful and kind way understanding how contention drives away the spirit and causes people to build walls. You fight criticism with curiousity with the way you convey your beliefs and how and why evangelicals believe differently while also being very respectful and understanding to our faith and culture giving respect to those things that are sacred to us while truly being interested in understanding why we believe what we do. Well done. Proud of you and Joy. Glad you moved out here and am excited you have made Utah home. Welcome home as I believe you indeed were led here to do this work.

Buffalo NY! Woohoo! I am a minister here in Buffalo, that’s so awesome! Love the channel! Keep it up!

Thank you so much for what you do. I served a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and the contention you described is definitely out there. I would try not to encourage such reactions cause when someone puts up a brick wall, there is no common ground and space for the spirit to whisper to our hearts and be heard. You walk away feeling yucky. I love learning of other’s beliefs and how it impacts their lives for good. I know that if we want others to understand us, we need to be willing to listen and learn in return just as you are doing. Christ is in the center of it all.

I'd actually pay to watch an hours worth of bloopers! 😂😂😂❤❤❤ You both are so cute!

I do like your videos, even though I find them incredibly frustrating at the same time. They remind me of conversations I have had with Baptists periodically, as well as with some Jewish friends. However, I do find my own faith in the doctrines and teachings of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints to be reinforced. I can definitely endorse inroads being made to bring better understanding and for us to become friends and even 'cousins' in faith (so to speak). One thing I cannot endorse are any efforts to build 'offramps' from the faith. We believe the truth speaks for itself, and from what I can tell, you believe the same, we just come to different conclusions based on interpretation of scripture, and in our case, the addition of modern revelation. There is nothing wrong with a compare and contrast either, as well as in the context of creating understanding, if only to know where we all stand. I am very glad you brought up Saints Unscripted Reel, it was very good. His experience in this regard is very much the norm for what we experience in many of our interactions with evangelicals, which seems to be the strongest opposition we tend to get in Faith centered spaces, even more so than the Baptists (which is saying something lol, I mean, afterall, Westboro is part of their overall faith group, though I am very aware that many Baptists don't agree with their methods per se either, :P ). One thing I am still very leery of is whether or not you are indeed trying to build offramps. I say this becuase at the end of each of your videos (for the most part) you always circle the format back around toward reproving our perspective on scriptures, albeit in a nice way, but the format remains. All this will do long term is peel away those who need external validation for their beliefs both for and against either of our faith traditions. In fact, I read a few comments recently where an evangelical converted to the LDS church becuase of your videos. I also saw a comment of the opposite occurring where a member of the LDS faith stopped going to church for the same reasons. The point is, you are not presenting a neutral comparison. Which is fine, it is your channel, and I don't expect you to present a neutral perspective, nor should anyone else. But everyone needs to be very aware that this is the case. This is not a neutral ground, despite the degree of respect your are presenting.

I love what you’re doing. With the direction the world is going, I’m hoping all believers can realize we are ultimately on the same team.

Hello Jeff and Joy. Have ya all considered going to a series of Sunday meetings and investigator classes to 'explore' the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints from the inside out??

I so appreciate your willingness to have these kinds of conversations and as I’ve listened to various sessions on the channel, I believe it has caused a deeper spiritual conversation about my faith and experiences. I cannot wait to see where you (& Joy) go next!

Perfect choice to include your wife. Not just as a female but to include someone who is a great witness of your growth in this experience and is completely invested in the cause. God bless you and your family for your service :)

So well done, Pastor Jeff and Joy! Thank you for leading out on a conversation that can, hopefully, lead everyone towards Jesus. As a dad, I can tell you the subtle (and major) differences between each of my five daughters. Dinner time can be complete and utter chaos. There's a common respect between all of them, though, and they're constantly on the lookout for each other. I think God looks at all His kids and recognizes how different they are. I believe He's asking each of us to respect one another, and look out for one another. And even though it can be chaotic sometimes, I believe there is plenty of room at the Table of Christ for different people and differences of opinions.

I love your expressions of growing out of where you were and ready for more. This is the path of progression God created from the beginning and will continue after the second coming thru the millennium and after the final judgement. God has a plan for us to grow and progress for eternity if we choose to get on the covenant path with Him and follow His way. Beautiful and perfect!

Thank you, Pastor Jeff, for sharing this insight with us and including your sweet wife in the conversation! You both make a wonderful couple... united in your effort to help all of us understand and learning about the "why" in each other's religion! You have opened a much needed door, where folks can sit down and share their beliefs and understandings, open, honest, and respectfully! This has been much need in this world! Again, I thank you and all involved, including your beautiful wife!❤ I look forward to each video!🤗

Yes! Pastor Jeff I am a huge fan of what you're doing. Your search reignited my own search for a connection with my faith. I envy you getting to grow on this journey alongside your wife. You guys are phenomenal people and the light of the Lord shines forth through your works. Thanks to you both!

Jeff & Joy, I really appreciated our conversation at the theater last Saturday. Thank you for taking time with me - it sparked a much needed conversation with my daughter afterwards. You two are darling!

This is a very tender and sweet soul bearing interaction, I love it. As a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of latter-day Saints, I feel that we have a common thread for our love and affection for the Lord Jesus Christ. And that has been amplified by the multi series, The Chosen produced by Dallas Jenkins, who is an evangelical. My wife and I have seen all four seasons and I think that we have rerun the first three seasons nearly 30 times or more and the content never gets old and you can feel the spirit so strong. Your honesty in this podcast is so refreshing, sweet and sincere, best wishes on your quest that is taking you in uncharted waters. God bless.

While following your KZfaq channel over the last couple of years, I've often wondered how and why you are so incredible. Now that I've had 40 minutes listening to your wife, I have no more questions. She is amazing and the two of you are synergistically helpful. Keep it up.

Good analogy, Jeff. Jesus talking to the woman at the well is profound in teaching all people, not matter their faith, speak kindly of one another and to another.

I love when Joy is on the channel! Definitely keep bringing her back! To me, both of you come across as very sincere. I appreciate the respect and curiosity you both have. It really is ok that we disagree about some interpretations and doctrines. We are brothers and sisters in Christ, and I can see your love for Him. I appreciate the way you minister and share His light with the world. Because of your channel, I’ve started watching Greg Matsen too. He really loves what you’re doing, as I’m sure you’re aware. I love listening to the conversations you two have. He represents our beliefs well I think and he gets what you’re doing and supports it. I hope you’ll have him on the podcast many, many times.

I love dialogs. I have missed it since I retired. I appreciate your channel because of the way you address controversial subjects with curiosity. You are demonstrating how to be respectful even when we disagree. Thank-you

I'm already a binge podcaster user so I'm excited to keep following you and seeing more deep dives in these long form segments. Much love to you brother Jeff and sister Joy!

Love Love love love listening to conversations you share with your dear wife. She is awesome! That relationship is where we learn the most of our saviors love for us and Heavenly Fathers plan

it was nice to catch this video and see your wife in person. Looking forward to the podcasts

Your podcast as well as others like Greg Matson, and Jacob Hansen is a wonderful blessing to me. I've learned and come to have a better understanding my own faith and beliefs of not only mine but others such as yourself. This understanding I gained gained has taught me to be respectful of are differences and come to believe some of the difference we seem to be semantics. As a Latter Day Saint, I have seen that much of my misconceptions regarding you faith and beliefs are not so different in many respects. having said this, the Big one that I can not for whatever reason understand fully is the Trinity, that is to say God, and Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit being one and the same. As you know LDS believe they are separate beings of flesh and bones except for the holy spirit who has no flesh and bones. I don't say this to prove you wrong or disrespect others different beliefs in anyway. I know God love all of his children, and when he comes again there will be much to learn for all of us. Keep doing what you do, you are a blessing to so many of us. God Bless you and your lovely wife for teaching us how to love and respect each other more than we would otherwise be able to do.

I really appreciate this conversation ❤ I'm looking forward to the podcast.

I appreciate you sharing your journey and exploration with the world. There are sooooo many voices that disparage members of my faith and it is refreshing to hear you approaching differences with love and compassion. We are all here trying to get through life with all of our adopted baggage, it is delightful to see you look at things objectively. It's easy for both sides to fall into conflict but we are all children of God driving toward our greater faith and constant berating is not helpful for either side. I'm looking forward to the things you have coming up, you do a great job.

Looking forward to watching your future podcasts!

I think it's great that instead of being fearful of another religion, you are embracing your curiosity and examining the similarities and differences between your religion and another religion. I have found that we are more alike than different.

The Nauvoo and Kirtland temples were not a waste or a complete loss. They served a very important purpose for what was needed at that time. There were important revelations and restoration of Priesthood keys in the Kirtland temple and in the Nauvoo temple the saints participated in sacred temple ordinances which gave them the strength to cross the plains to Utah. God had an important purpose for those temples which was fulfilled before they were lost. I love your sincere and humble heart. Thanks for sharing. Keep searching and asking. If you want to find answers, read the Book of Mormon and pray and ask God if it is the word of God. He will answer you. ❤

Love you Pastor Jeff and Joy! Thank you for doing this podcast. It's refreshing to feel like we are brothers and sisters in Christ!

I'm looking forward to the long form discussions you'll be able to have in this format.

I love your channel and am excited about this podcast! I would love for you to have Jared Halverson as a guest and hear what amazing conversations you would have with him! He has a channel called Unshaken Saints.

Jeff and Joy, Thanks so much for recognizing how Christ is touching your lives to bring civility and dialogue into the uncomfortable space between the christian sects, especially our two. On all sides, we have put up walls for too long and not allowed ourselves to enter into meaningful, Christlike dialogue and useful interaction. Even in our differences, we have so much to offer the Lord and to each other as we engage and serve Jesus together in this world. My Evangelical friends and I have spent years learning together that there IS common ground for Christlike love and interaction rather than falling to contention when our difference collide. I so appreciate your response to the Lord’s promptings to serve him, and us, in this way. Your ministry is definitely be much more, as joy said. This will indeed blow up, in a good way for all of us. Thanks for inviting us to be part of your journey. I especially look forward to learning more about Evangelicals now that you have open doors of trust.

I feel that you have good hearted motives for engaging with the LDS community.. You're both clearly very spiritual and have warm hearts and trust builders. Keep up the good work ❤

Really love you both, thank you for your kindness ❤

There are LDS Christians and Non-LDS Christians. What God expects of us is to live as best we can according to the knowledge that He has given us. If we do so, and rely upon the Holy Ghost, we will eventually be drawn to a united understanding in Christ. 26 For what man among you having twelve sons, and is no respecter of them, and they serve him obediently, and he saith unto the one: Be thou clothed in robes and sit thou here; and to the other: Be thou clothed in rags and sit thou there-and looketh upon his sons and saith I am just? 27 Behold, this I have given unto you as a parable, and it is even as I am. I say unto you, be one; and if ye are not one ye are not mine. Doctrine and Covenants 38:26-27 21 That they all may be one; as thou, Father, _art_ in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. 22 And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: 23 I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me. John 17:21-23 KJV 10 Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and _that_ there be no divisions among you; but _that_ ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment. 1 Corinthians 1:10 KJV 28 And according as I have commanded you thus shall ye baptize. And there shall be no disputations among you, as there have hitherto been; neither shall there be disputations among you concerning the points of my doctrine, as there have hitherto been. 29 For verily, verily I say unto you, he that hath the spirit of contention is not of me, but is of the devil, who is the father of contention, and he stirreth up the hearts of men to contend with anger, one with another. 30 Behold, this is not my doctrine, to stir up the hearts of men with anger, one against another; but this is my doctrine, that such things should be done away. 3 Nephi 11:28-30

Love your channel. I have watched many of your posts. I came from a Lutheran background and joined the LDS church during college - over 50 years ago. In the end our faith in Jesus Christ and trust in his atoning sacrifice is key. I have found it. Keep up the good work.

You guys are adorable - thank you for the honesty and vulnerability in bringing followers of Christ together.

Your journey was to find acceptance from your peers; it’s the fear of failing them that has stopped you from the one thing you know you must do now.

It was beautiful to hear perspectives from both of you. Your non judgemental curiosity I think is opening doors of understanding on both sides. God bless you both in this work.

This was beautiful! I loved the way you treated emotional and spiritual safety in the context of Jesus' compassion. I also resonated with the IFS analogy for interfaith dialogue. I have no doubt that you are building bridges and mending hearts.

I believe that you were Divinely guided to do this. You are lights to both the LDS and evangelical communities. Thank you for what you are doing.

Greetings, Pastor Jeff! You have been placed for such a time as this! Joy, I love how you articulated, support Jeff's gifts and talents as you both pursue this much needed niche, for evangelicals & IDS folks. Thank you, and God Bless you & your family. I pray over this ministry, your family and your marriage as you seek to bridge a huge gap through curiosity, in truth in love. :))

Evangelical here! I love this channel. I find the LDS beliefs to be very interesting because they are so similar and yet often so different than my own. I'm a bit of psychology nerd so I find it really fascinating that we can live such parallel lives often right next to each other geographically, but have so much difference in church culture. Anyway, glad to be here!

It’s really encouraging to see someone live out what they believe. By that I mean going to places that might be foreign to you and building genuine relationships with people who might reject you or where you come from. Not forming relationships trying to convert people, but living like Jesus showed us how to live. Awesome stuff

I loved this video so much! What you’re doing is such a good thing Jeff! ❤ I hope you have Joy on often, because I learned alot from her perspective. I’m taking a class on IFS right now, and it’s so interesting! I love how you applied those ideas to the collective also. Jared Halverson is already doing amazing interfaith work, and I bet you’d love a conversation with him Jeff. I hope you invite him into your podcast. Thanks again for what you’re doing! ❤

I loved this podcast! I truly believe you were inspired to start this journey you are on. I am a Latter-Day Saint, and I am grateful that people like you, Dallas Jenkins, creator of The Chosen, and others are listening to the promptings of the Spirit and bringing new ways for followers of Christ to come together and share and spread His message. God bless you in your endeavors!

The more you share the set with your beautiful wife, the more I like you and your content. She is a gem ! As a man married to an angel, I know one when I see one. Keep it up Pastor Jeff.

I think I just cried for half of that conversation. Thank you Joy! Thank you Pastor Jeff! Thank you for starting a revolutionary new kind of conversation. For showing that religious dialogue can be a beautiful thing for both parties. I don't have words to say how thankful I am for you guys, and that you moved all the way to Utah to further this. I sincerely believe that this is what is spoken of in 1 John 4. "Let us love one another...for God is Love." Love is neither enmeshment nor stonewalling. It's something else that transcends both. And I think Jesus smiles on this channel/podcast. Here's to emotionally healthy conversations. May it become a long standing trend, and you both be very blessed!

You are lovely people, and I am so thankful for what you are doing. As a faithful member of the Church of Jesus Christ of latter-day saints, I am so thankful for good people like you who are doing so much to live and exemplify the Gospel of Jesus Christ I have a group of eight girlfriends 37:53 from my California high school who have gotten together together about once a year since we got into our sixties. We are of different religious faiths, but as Christians, we realize that we have more in common than not in common, and we have been there for each other through death and other challenges in our families. I think your goal to understand people of different faiths is very refreshing. Our group respects one another, and that seems to be how you two operate. I think this is what our world needs today. Thank you for what you are doing.

So wonderful to have you as brother and sister in Christ.

Wow! Exciting podcast and very interested to see where this continues to go. I hope we hear more of a female perspective, too, as you mentioned. I am a…oh I don’t know, in-between a Latter-day Saint and a Christian as I attend a Christian church but haven’t officially left the LDS church. I’m still exploring what God wants from me, for sure! My husband and I do not have any living children and one of the difficulties we have experienced, most strongly within the Latter-day Saint church is a feeling of misplacement by being childless not by choice. We struggle, tremendously with this and as a result feel a little more at home within a mainstream Christian church which focuses more on the individual relationship with Christ instead of the family relationship to Christ. I’m praying your podcast continues to have great success and that God leads you in all you do.

You should also have Don Bradley as a guest. He knows tons about LDS history, is an author and even left the church for a while, but came back.

So good to see your better half Jeff and to get her name Joy . I sent a comment when you went to see a temple open house and recorded you r car your impressions . I so enjoyed her words, aI hope you have her on your podcasts more. You are a great couple .

As saints, we love you guys. Thank you 🙏

Love you both. It's ok to investigate religions and know the differences.. I think it's a fantastic idea. I've been lds a long time. I just recently really jumped into the Bible and Christianity and can see the complete difference between Mormonism and Christianity and it's huge. God bless you both.

You're a stud. Thank you for talking so kindly about the LDS Faith. I feel that you are my brother in Christ. Thank you

Joy is a marvellous woman! I can sense her spirit, and it's beautiful! I really appreciate her knowledge and experience of the emotional side of things! I, myself, am learning to heal from misunderstandings of certain parts of Christian theology. I'm also really appreciating understanding more of the mainstream Christian understandings. I had a sister-in-law who is Evangelical and, whilst we obviously disagreed with some doctrine, we both knew that we both loved the Lord! That is what bonded us! We respected each other, as a result. Safe, honest spaces without hidden agendas are essential for true interfaith relationships - that's the only way the Holy Ghost will be able to have an influence on either parties.

Wonderful approach to connect with all God’s children. Thank you

Ha! I loved that you put in a blooper reel and loved the content of the blooper reel. You two are so awesome together. Thank you for sharing your wondering love, souls and personalities with the world.

Pastor Jeff… I appreciate your ministry and pray that God will continue to use you as you present The Truth Who is Jesus who died for all of us. May all people of different belief systems come to a saving relationship with Jesus Christ.

Normally don’t comment much but man, love those outtakes at the end!!!! I think they just made my day, needed the laughs!!!

Thank you for the origin story :-) please keep the videos coming always enjoyable and informative :-)

Thank Heavens for you and your wife. You kept mentioning the importance of honesty. I believe you are an honest couple. I have been a member of the LDS church all my life. I lived back east and I was glad just to be around other believers in Christ. I believe as long as we are on the path of becoming better people the Lord is happy with us. We both believe in the return of Christ to this earth. When he comes again this earth will be changed from a Telestial glory into a Terrestrial Glory planet. People will not even need to be a Christian in order to remain on the earth. All they need to do is keep the 10 commandments and they will be able to see their saviour and have a similar experience to the people talked about in 3 Nephi chapter 11. Yes as LDS our goal is to make it to the Celestial Kingdom but first we need to make it to the Terrestrial Kingdom. In one of your other videos you had trouble with chapter 8 and all the destruction. The reason that they were killed off was because they were not living the 10 commandments. They were Isrealites and they knew what the 10 commandments were. They were not worthy to meet their saviour. The people who were spared kept the 10 commandments. They then got to see a resurected God descend from the sky. When the gospel went to the gentile nations through Paul and others they were taught the commandments for the first time. That is why God had more mercy on them. Judgment only comes when a people deliberately chose to disobey. Like I'm the days of Noah and the Ark. It may not be your time to join our church as God wants you to teach others to at least believe in Christ so that they can live to see Christ come back to earth. If you are interested I would open the opportunity for us to meet. Just respond and I will send you my contact info. I believe that as long as you are bringing people to Christ you are doing a great work in getting people who don't believe in our church to at least keep the 10 commandments so that they can meet Christ and let him gather them as a chicken gathers her chicks under her wings of protection. The earth is about to change to those people who are kind to each other and act like human beings and those who only care about themselves and have no love for their fellow men. Keep up the good work and welcome to Utah brother.

Thank you for teaching us how to respectfully and genuinely approach others with different religions, culture s, race, etc. If everyone in the world took this same approach to truly be like Jesus, the World would have peace. I am grateful that the Lord has guided you to take this path and teach us. Thank you!

As Latter Day Saints, we do not Demonize People of other faiths

Something my priest group did when I was 17 was to visit other churches. We visited a baptist church, a mosque, and a Hindu temple. The goal was to try and create understanding of these other faiths in preparation for serving a mission. It was a new idea and I’m not sure it kept growing, but I think doing activities like that would help humanize people.

Love your analogy of outgrowing your pot.

Amazing, I love your approach to looking at other people/religions. If we all looked at each other as followers of Christ, the world would be an amazing place.

I freaking love this! I am so grateful you have reached across the lines that really shouldn’t be there. I agree with you and Joy! That’s not Jesus. Jesus wanted us to love each other and understand each other because we are all ultimately trying to get back to him and feel of His unconditional love. Thank you so very much! Much love!!

"Thats not Jesus, that's religion." That struck a chord with me, thank you

As I read the Book of Mormon, I'm convinced all people and religions who choose to follow the teachings of God and the Savior are all under the same banner of being on the same team. This will be the beginning of a beautiful relationship, Pastor Jeff!

One day you could explore the Church outside the US

Love to hear about IFS. Really great modality for healing

I love that statement that by criticizing other religions with judgements of who has it right and who has it wrong does indeed miss the mission of Jesus Christ. "By this shall men know you are my disciples, if you love one another". What is the basis of the gospel? Matthew 22:37. Did he say to his disciples "I will make you fishers of certain types of men". No, "I will make you fishers of men" applied to all ages, races, genders and existing religious beliefs. Getting into the nitty gritty of who thinks who is more right becomes a pride matter, not a faith matter. Love your podcast so far

Living in the last days it is refreshing to have you explore and get acquainted with our beliefs and I believe it is important that all Christians should be working together. I believe that is what Heavenly Father wants. He loves all his children. The way the world is becoming “woke” we all of different Christian faiths need each other more than at any other time in history.

Your respect just in turning from calling us "Mormons" I think speaks volumes about you and your integrity. You can just tell that you're genuine and willing to learn and respect the value of the church to the Christian community. Even if we are more cousins than actual Christians we can still work together to help Christ bring forth his kingdom.

I’m willing to guess that the greater majority of your LDS followers agree that your efforts are indeed the response to a call from our Savior to bring people who love Him together across a divide of misunderstanding. You two are an incredibly cute couple and we love you both so much. Looking forward to your podcasts.

I enjoyed the podcast with your wife! I realized as a lifelong member of the Church of Jesus Christ, whenever I have heard evangelicals say they are saved, it subconsciously ruffles my feathers because it feels arrogant, though I know its never meant to come off that way. To me, I won't know if I'm saved until the judgment day when Christ himself says I am so I never presume to say I'm saved, even though I've been baptized and have accepted Jesus as my Lord and Savior. Its just another difference in the way we view things I suppose.

Jeff and Joy…thank you for opening the door to this dialogue between believers. One of the things I’ve felt strongly about is this need to build bridges between Christians as we prepare for the return of Jesus Christ. How can He come back to a house divided? I’ve similarly been doing a deep dive into those of other faiths to find the connective tissue we share as believers..to link arms with those who love Jesus. We love and appreciate the work you are doing.

Love your channel :)

You're a pioneer brother. Keep up the good work!

I have watched Hello Saints from the beginning. I was reared in the Evangelical United Brethren Church (which was absorbed by the Methodists in the late 1960s). My sweet grandpa was an EUB/Methodist minister, so I completely understand the Evangelical perspective. Kurt and Alanna Francom are dear friends.

What your wife said "we matter too" sounded very LDS. For us, that attitude we all matter comes from our understanding of the nature of God as the father of us all, and all of us being actual family with each other. When we says we are all children of God, for us, it's literal. Keep it up, Brother.

I would love to hear more Evangelical content. I have actually been converted to pretty much all your beliefs by The Book of Mormon. But I am finding myself in a difficult space with my husband and family still being firmly LDS. I would love to explore other churches, but am finding it difficult to do so. I would love to have some preaching specific to the transition from LDS to Evangelical.

Excellent podcast!

I think it is important to keep in mind how many times Jesus told us not to judge one another. For evangelicals to suggest that Mormons are going to hell is the opposite of that teaching and for Mormons to tell Evangelicals that they are short of the mark is also inappropriate. None of us can judge another person's relationship with Christ.

The thought just came to me …. I have enjoyed listening to Hello Saints and Jeff’s respect. I wonder if he has really thought about the importance of prayer not just for his behalf but prayer that he respects us as Latter Day Saints We are not an unusual thing to just be studied but followers of Christ we have strong beliefs and pure hearts