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“Following the apostasy and disintegration of the Church He had organized while on the earth, the Lord reestablished the Church of Jesus Christ once again through the Prophet Joseph Smith. The ancient purpose remains: that is, to preach the good news of the gospel of Jesus Christ and administer the ordinances of salvation—in other words, to bring people to Christ.”
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“How does His Church accomplish the Lord’s purposes? It is important to recognize that God’s ultimate purpose is our progress. His desire is that we continue ‘from grace to grace, until [we receive] a fulness’ of all He can give. That requires more than simply being nice or feeling spiritual. It requires faith in Jesus Christ, repentance, baptism of water and of the Spirit, and enduring in faith to the end. One cannot fully achieve this in isolation, so a major reason the Lord has a church is to create a community of Saints that will sustain one another in the “strait and narrow path which leads to eternal life.” (Elder D. Todd Christofferson, Why the Church, General Conference October 2015)
A broken heart could be looked at like breaking a horse. We don’t do it to be mean, but it does take work. You have a much better relationship with the horse after they are broken.
Someone suggested that gratitude is righteous pride.
“The Lord Himself has stated that the Book of Mormon contains the ‘fulness of the gospel of Jesus
Christ.’ (D&C 20:9) That does not mean it contains every teaching, every doctrine ever revealed.
Rather, it means that in the Book of Mormon we will find the fullness of those doctrines required for
our salvation. And they are taught plainly and sim 1y so that even children can learn the ways of
salvation and exaltation. The Book of Mormon offers so much that broadens our understandings of the
doctrines of salvation. Without it, much of what is taught in other scriptures would not be nearly so
plain and precious” (“The Keystone of Our Religion." Ensign, Jan. 1992, 5).
“In the twentieth section of the Doctrine and Covenants, the Lord devotes several verses to summarizing the vital truths which the Book of Mormon teaches. (See vs. 17–36.) It speaks of God, the creation of man, the Fall, the Atonement, the ascension of Christ into heaven, prophets, faith, repentance, baptism, the Holy Ghost, endurance, prayer, justification and sanctification through grace, and loving and serving God.
“We must know these essential truths. Aaron and Ammon and their brethren in the Book of Mormon taught these same kinds of truths to the Lamanite people (see Alma 18:22–39), who were ‘in the darkest abyss’ (Alma 26:3). After accepting these eternal truths, the Book of Mormon states, those converted Lamanites never did fall away. (See Alma 23:6.)
“If our children and grandchildren are taught and heed these same truths, will they fall away? We best instruct them in the Book of Mormon at our dinner table, by our firesides, at their bedsides, and in our letters and phone calls—in all of our goings and comings” (“A New Witness for Christ,” Ensign, Nov. 1984, 7).
Justification aligns ourselves with Christ.
Sanctification removes the sin.
If the Church is making you sad or miserable, you are not doing it right.
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