Welcome
Thankyou for visiting UK Partnerships for Christ, we are a Christian ministry based in Middlesbrough in the North East of England, that is seeking to equip the Church all around the country in how to respond and confidently witness to other faiths that have their roots in Christianity but have gone in a totally different direction. We are a UK Branch of Utah Partnerships for Christ. (www.upfc.org)
Christians reading this page will many times I am sure, have had members of the Mormon and Jehovah's Witness Church knock on their door before. This can often lead to an awquard moment of the Christian thinking of a way to ask these people to leave as they do not know what to say to them.
What we have found from experience of speaking to members of these groups and through equipping Christians through seminars or group discussions, is that you do not have to be a theologian or scholar to confidently share your faith with someone of a different faith or worldview. You just need to have a good basic understanding of your own beliefs, why you believe it and also to understand the need for people like the Mormons to hear what you have to say.
Our ministry is here to help Christians in the UK understand the real need that Mormons, Jehovahs Witnesses and other Christian offshoot groups have to hear the biblical gospel and to equip them in how to share this with them. Throughout our website we will explain who we are, how we go about this and give you the opportunity to ask us more about this.
We also have two blogs that are refferenced to above, that go into more depth about the issues raised by the Mormon and Jehovah's WItness faiths and how to respond to them biblically. Often we get members of those groups commenting on there so it is a great chance to see their perspective and engage with it yourself.
For us personally this ministry has seen exciting developments in the last year, with 2 mission trips to Utah working with our partner ministry, Utah Partnerships for Christ, and seeing someone saved out of a local Mormon church and coming to a saving relationship with Jesus Christ. Our desire is to share what we have learned with others and show that members of faiths that have broken off from Christianity such as Mormonism, Jehovah's Witness, Christadelphian, Christian Science, International Church of Christ, and the list goes on, are full of people that are as loved by God as any other lost person and are totally reachable by the biblical gospel.
Why Mormons and Jehovahs Witnesses?
So a question you might be asking is why bother? Why should any time be put into sharing the gospel with members of the Mormon or Jehovah's Witness Faiths or any others like it for that matter? Arent they all Christians anyway?
Firstly it is helpful to define, what does it mean to be a Christian? what is the difference between someone who isnt a Christian and someone who is?
Romans 3:23 says all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. Compared to the perfect Holy God of the bible, none of us match up, as we have sinned, meaning we have fallen short of Gods standard of perfection.
Due to Gods great love for the people that He created, us humans, He sent His Son, God in the flesh, Jesus Christ to come and through torture and eventual death on the cross, He took the punishment for sin, which is death for us all. This then left it open to us, that through faith in Christ we could be totally free of the punishment for our sin and be born again, meaning being changed from within by Him.
Christians reading this page will many times I am sure, have had members of the Mormon and Jehovah's Witness Church knock on their door before. This can often lead to an awquard moment of the Christian thinking of a way to ask these people to leave as they do not know what to say to them.
What we have found from experience of speaking to members of these groups and through equipping Christians through seminars or group discussions, is that you do not have to be a theologian or scholar to confidently share your faith with someone of a different faith or worldview. You just need to have a good basic understanding of your own beliefs, why you believe it and also to understand the need for people like the Mormons to hear what you have to say.
Our ministry is here to help Christians in the UK understand the real need that Mormons, Jehovahs Witnesses and other Christian offshoot groups have to hear the biblical gospel and to equip them in how to share this with them. Throughout our website we will explain who we are, how we go about this and give you the opportunity to ask us more about this.
We also have two blogs that are refferenced to above, that go into more depth about the issues raised by the Mormon and Jehovah's WItness faiths and how to respond to them biblically. Often we get members of those groups commenting on there so it is a great chance to see their perspective and engage with it yourself.
For us personally this ministry has seen exciting developments in the last year, with 2 mission trips to Utah working with our partner ministry, Utah Partnerships for Christ, and seeing someone saved out of a local Mormon church and coming to a saving relationship with Jesus Christ. Our desire is to share what we have learned with others and show that members of faiths that have broken off from Christianity such as Mormonism, Jehovah's Witness, Christadelphian, Christian Science, International Church of Christ, and the list goes on, are full of people that are as loved by God as any other lost person and are totally reachable by the biblical gospel.
Why Mormons and Jehovahs Witnesses?
So a question you might be asking is why bother? Why should any time be put into sharing the gospel with members of the Mormon or Jehovah's Witness Faiths or any others like it for that matter? Arent they all Christians anyway?
Firstly it is helpful to define, what does it mean to be a Christian? what is the difference between someone who isnt a Christian and someone who is?
Romans 3:23 says all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. Compared to the perfect Holy God of the bible, none of us match up, as we have sinned, meaning we have fallen short of Gods standard of perfection.
Due to Gods great love for the people that He created, us humans, He sent His Son, God in the flesh, Jesus Christ to come and through torture and eventual death on the cross, He took the punishment for sin, which is death for us all. This then left it open to us, that through faith in Christ we could be totally free of the punishment for our sin and be born again, meaning being changed from within by Him.
This teaching of salvation by faith alone captures the heart of Christianity in two ways.
1, It shows just how great Christ is.
Jesus Christ is God uncreated, it says in John 1:3 that He created all things, in Philippians 2:6 it says that He was equal with God but cast that aside so that He could take our form as servants compared to God, so that He could pay this great cost for us. It is because Christ is God, not a created being that His work is sufficient for us and there is nothing we can add to it. Both Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses claim Jesus is a god like being that is very significant but He is not God eternal.
2, We are utterly unable to make ourselves acceptable to God through our own works.
Isaiah 64:6 says that our good works are like filthy rags to God, when it comes to being acceptable by God we have to be righteous, this means when He looks at us He finds no fault. Both Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses believe that we have to play our part in obtaining this salvation and Jesus kind of makes up the rest.
In the Book of Mormon it sums this up very well in 2 Nephi 25:23 it says we are saved by grace after all we can do. This is a foreign concept to biblical salvation which in Romans 4 for the first few verses says this.
What then shall we say that Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh, has found? 2 For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God. 3 For what does the Scripture say? “ABRAHAM BELIEVED GOD, AND IT WAS CREDITED TO HIM AS RIGHTEOUSNESS.” 4 Now to the one who works, his wage is not credited as a favor, but as what is due. 5 But to the one who does not work, but believes in Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is credited as righteousness.
This is biblical salvation that due to the great glory of Christ we can be saved because of His total sufficience and our total dependancy. This ministry exists because these groups in question say that Jesus is not enough, you must do your part to be saved. This is no salvation at all and brings to mind what Paul says in Galatians 1:8.
But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let them be under God’s curse!
It is so important to reach these people as they are preaching a gospel that does not save, it gives a glimpse of the biblical gospel and a glimpse of the biblical Christ but their teachings keep them from being 100% reliant on Christ for their salvation. I have heard many Mormon Missionaries say we do our best and Christ makes up the rest. This is not a biblical concept, Romans 4:5 says there is a reward of righteousness for those that do not work but trust in Christ.
As well as this with both the Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses, there are many historical issues that often its members do not know about, which throw into massive question their truthfulness from the start.
This ministry seeks to equip and prepare Christians to know how to respond when coming into contact with these groups.
Please have a look around the rest of our site and we would love to hear from you.
1, It shows just how great Christ is.
Jesus Christ is God uncreated, it says in John 1:3 that He created all things, in Philippians 2:6 it says that He was equal with God but cast that aside so that He could take our form as servants compared to God, so that He could pay this great cost for us. It is because Christ is God, not a created being that His work is sufficient for us and there is nothing we can add to it. Both Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses claim Jesus is a god like being that is very significant but He is not God eternal.
2, We are utterly unable to make ourselves acceptable to God through our own works.
Isaiah 64:6 says that our good works are like filthy rags to God, when it comes to being acceptable by God we have to be righteous, this means when He looks at us He finds no fault. Both Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses believe that we have to play our part in obtaining this salvation and Jesus kind of makes up the rest.
In the Book of Mormon it sums this up very well in 2 Nephi 25:23 it says we are saved by grace after all we can do. This is a foreign concept to biblical salvation which in Romans 4 for the first few verses says this.
What then shall we say that Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh, has found? 2 For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God. 3 For what does the Scripture say? “ABRAHAM BELIEVED GOD, AND IT WAS CREDITED TO HIM AS RIGHTEOUSNESS.” 4 Now to the one who works, his wage is not credited as a favor, but as what is due. 5 But to the one who does not work, but believes in Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is credited as righteousness.
This is biblical salvation that due to the great glory of Christ we can be saved because of His total sufficience and our total dependancy. This ministry exists because these groups in question say that Jesus is not enough, you must do your part to be saved. This is no salvation at all and brings to mind what Paul says in Galatians 1:8.
But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let them be under God’s curse!
It is so important to reach these people as they are preaching a gospel that does not save, it gives a glimpse of the biblical gospel and a glimpse of the biblical Christ but their teachings keep them from being 100% reliant on Christ for their salvation. I have heard many Mormon Missionaries say we do our best and Christ makes up the rest. This is not a biblical concept, Romans 4:5 says there is a reward of righteousness for those that do not work but trust in Christ.
As well as this with both the Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses, there are many historical issues that often its members do not know about, which throw into massive question their truthfulness from the start.
This ministry seeks to equip and prepare Christians to know how to respond when coming into contact with these groups.
Please have a look around the rest of our site and we would love to hear from you.