Sacrament Service
How much of going to church is cultural and how much is from the heart.
“Let us embrace the future with faith! Turbulent times are opportunities for us to thrive spiritually. They are times when our influence can be much more penetrating than in calmer times.
“I promise that as we create places of security, prepare our minds to be faithful to God, and never stop preparing, God will bless us. He will ‘deliver us; yea, insomuch that he [will] speak peace to our souls, and [will] grant unto us great faith, and … cause us that we [can] hope for our deliverance in him.’
“As you prepare to embrace the future with faith, these promises will be yours! I so testify,” (President Russell M. Nelson, “Embrace the Future with Faith”, Oct 2020 General Conference)
“Now, I would love to know what you have learned this year. Have you grown closer to the Lord, or do you feel further away from Him? And how have current events made you feel about the future?
“Admittedly, the Lord has spoken of our day in sobering terms. He warned that in our day “men’s hearts [would fail] them” and that even the very elect would be at risk of being deceived. He told the Prophet Joseph Smith that “peace [would] be taken from the earth” and calamities would befall mankind.” (President Russell M. Nelson, “Embrace the Future with Faith”, Oct 2020 General Conference)
You can follow a prompting from the Holy Ghost and begin to doubt because the outcome was not what we expected. It is God’s plan, not ours.
“My beloved brothers and sisters, I plead with you to increase your spiritual capacity to receive revelation. Let this Easter Sunday be a defining moment in your life. Choose to do the spiritual work required to enjoy the gift of the Holy Ghost and hear the voice of the Spirit more frequently and more clearly.” (President Russell M Nelson, Revelation for the Church, Revelation for Our Lives, April 2018 General Conference)
How much of going to church is cultural and how much is from the heart.
“Let us embrace the future with faith! Turbulent times are opportunities for us to thrive spiritually. They are times when our influence can be much more penetrating than in calmer times.
“I promise that as we create places of security, prepare our minds to be faithful to God, and never stop preparing, God will bless us. He will ‘deliver us; yea, insomuch that he [will] speak peace to our souls, and [will] grant unto us great faith, and … cause us that we [can] hope for our deliverance in him.’
“As you prepare to embrace the future with faith, these promises will be yours! I so testify,” (President Russell M. Nelson, “Embrace the Future with Faith”, Oct 2020 General Conference)
“Now, I would love to know what you have learned this year. Have you grown closer to the Lord, or do you feel further away from Him? And how have current events made you feel about the future?
“Admittedly, the Lord has spoken of our day in sobering terms. He warned that in our day “men’s hearts [would fail] them” and that even the very elect would be at risk of being deceived. He told the Prophet Joseph Smith that “peace [would] be taken from the earth” and calamities would befall mankind.” (President Russell M. Nelson, “Embrace the Future with Faith”, Oct 2020 General Conference)
You can follow a prompting from the Holy Ghost and begin to doubt because the outcome was not what we expected. It is God’s plan, not ours.
“My beloved brothers and sisters, I plead with you to increase your spiritual capacity to receive revelation. Let this Easter Sunday be a defining moment in your life. Choose to do the spiritual work required to enjoy the gift of the Holy Ghost and hear the voice of the Spirit more frequently and more clearly.” (President Russell M Nelson, Revelation for the Church, Revelation for Our Lives, April 2018 General Conference)
Elders Quorum
The lesson was based on Hearts Knit in Righteousness and Unity By Elder Quentin L. Cook
The link to the talk can be found here:
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/2020/10/15cook?lang=eng
RIGHTEOUSNESS
Mosiah 2:41
41 And moreover, I would desire that ye should consider on the blessed and happy state of those that keep the commandments of God. For behold, they are blessed in all things, both temporal and spiritual; and if they hold out faithful to the end they are received into heaven, that thereby they may dwell with God in a state of never-ending happiness. O remember, remember that these things are true; for the Lord God hath spoken it.
“There is no Latter-day Saint who dies after having lived a faithful life who will lose anything because of having failed to do certain things when opportunities were not furnished him or her. In other words, if a young man or a young woman has no opportunity of getting married, and they live faithful lives up to the time of their death, they will have all the blessings, exaltation and glory that any man or woman will have who had this opportunity and improved it. That is sure and positive.”(Millennial Star, Aug. 31, 1899, 547–48.)
UNITY
1 John 5:1-2
1 Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him.
2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.
Mosiah 18:21
21 And he commanded them that there should be no contention one with another, but that they should look forward with one eye, having one faith and one baptism, having their hearts knit together in unity and in love one towards another.
DnC 101:77
77 According to the laws and constitution of the people, which I have suffered to be established, and should be maintained for the rights and protection of all flesh, according to just and holy principles;
DnC 79-80
“If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.” — Winston Churchill
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