Are Mormons ACTUALLY Christian?! | Live Free with Josh Howerton
2/2/20261 hr 36 min
Are Christians being manipulated by propaganda, and do most believers even realize it?
In this episode, Pastors Josh Howerton, Carlos Erazo, Paul Cunningham confront the rise of viral propaganda, emotional manipulation, and misinformation surrounding ICE and cultural outrage, calling Christians to think biblically rather than react emotionally; from there, the conversation moves to Mark 10, where Jesus radically redefines greatness, power, and authority through service and sacrifice, before closing with a clear, no-spin theological examination of Mormonism, addressing whether it aligns with biblical Christianity and why Scripture repeatedly warns against “another Jesus” and “another gospel.”
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 00:00
Do you know why your life feels dead? Because everybody's pouring into you, and you're not pouring into anybody else. Nothing's flowing The antidote towards your obsession with self is just you serve. Satan is fine with you becoming a more moral, happier person- With love ... on your way to hell.
Carlos Erazo· Host0:13
With love He's totally great with that.
Josh Hartman· Guest0:14
But it's interesting that when Jesus walked this earth, for Jesus it was not all about Jesus.
Speaker 00:18
Amen.
Josh Hartman· Guest0:18
It was all about others.
Carlos Erazo· Host0:19
Well, hey, welcome back to another episode of the Live Free Podcast. My name is Carlos Rosario.
Speaker 00:24
[singing] Captain Planet.
Josh Hartman· Guest0:25
[singing] He's a hero.
Speaker 00:26
[laughs] Sorry.
Carlos Erazo· Host0:26
I'm here with Pastor Josh Hartman and Pastor Paul Cunningham singing Captain Planet. [laughs] He's the hero, and that's not true 'cause Jesus is the hero- Oh ... not Captain Planet.
Josh Hartman· Guest0:32
Jeez, we just got Jesus juked on that.
Speaker 00:35
[laughs] On Captain Planet. We were doing a vintage early '90s cartoon dive.
Carlos Erazo· Host0:41
Mm-hmm.
Speaker 00:41
How did you, why did you bring up Captain Planet?
Carlos Erazo· Host0:43
He did.
Speaker 00:43
He did?
Josh Hartman· Guest0:44
I said, and brought up, like, two times capacity- He said it was his favorite show ... to, to show people what the Trinity is not- Ah ... but then also what Mormonism kind of is.
Carlos Erazo· Host0:50
[laughs] Only in the Live Free Podcast and only with Chad G, Paul C will you ever hear- [laughs] ... a connection between Captain Planet and the Trinity.
Speaker 00:56
That's exactly right.
Carlos Erazo· Host0:57
And Mormonism.
Speaker 00:58
And Mor- Yes ... which we're talking about today.
Josh Hartman· Guest1:00
Yes, we are.
Carlos Erazo· Host1:00
Hey, that's right. Uh, hey, by the way, we are coming to you from snowy Dallas, Texas.
Speaker 01:05
Yeah, that's true.
Carlos Erazo· Host1:05
Lake Point Church. And today we're gonna be talking about, uh, Mark chapter 10, Jesus teaching us how to pursue greatness.
Josh Hartman· Guest1:12
[laughs] [laughs] [laughs] Water to power. Go, Planet! By your powers combined, I am Captain Planet.
Carlos Erazo· Host1:24
[laughs] Nostalgia, bro.
Speaker 01:25
[singing] He's a hero, gonna take pollution down to zero.
Josh Hartman· Guest1:29
Pollution down to zero.
Speaker 01:29
I'm