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Spiritual Machinery. www.kevinhinckley.com. The problem with communicating…. Mountain Top Experiences. What is our goal?. Critical Goals. Knowing and feeling that God really loves him/her. Coming to understand God’s ‘characteristics and attributes’ (Lectures on Faith)
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Critical Goals • Knowing and feeling that God really loves him/her. • Coming to understand God’s ‘characteristics and attributes’ (Lectures on Faith) • This means teaching them to allow the Lord to become the ‘speaker of all [their] words and the doer of all their deeds.” (F. EnzioBusche) • Being able to identify the ‘still small voice’ when it speaks to them. • Recognizing the spirit as a manifestation of His love and awareness of them. • Having experiences of following the directions of the spirit and seeing the result.
Elder Holland When crisis comes in [their] lives—and they will—the philosophies of men interlaced with a few scriptures and poems just won’t do. Are we really nurturing [those we teach] in a way that will sustain them when the stresses of life appear? Or are we giving them a kind of theological Twinkie—spiritually empty calories? President John Taylor called such teaching ‘fried froth,’ the kind of thing you could eat all day and yet finish feeling totally unsatisfied. (“A Teacher Come from God,” Ensign, May 1998, 27)
Recent Client I know the Lord answered my prayer when things happen.
Flying Fiery Serpents Numbers 21
Show and Tell Alma 37
Mysteries of God Ephesians 1: 3-12
Finally,Orson Scott Card’s Rules about Good Ideas in the Church 1- Just because you thought of it doesn’t mean its inspired!
Finally,Orson Scott Card’s Rules about Good Ideas in the Church 2- Just because someone else thought of it doesn’t mean it wasn’t inspired!
Finally,Orson Scott Card’s Rules about Good Ideas in the Church 3- Telling your idea to the person who has the calling is part of supporting them.
Finally,Orson Scott Card’s Rules about Good Ideas in the Church 4- Criticizing them for not using your idea is backbiting!
Finally,Orson Scott Card’s Rules about Good Ideas in the Church 5- Nobody in this life ever has enough information to make a perfect decision. Its called ‘the veil.’