Posted on 06/29/2010 9:12:56 AM PDT by T Minus Four
Every once in a while, the church changes and updates their programs to better serve the needs of the members. I personally love how these programs, while the same in purpose and desired outcome, adapt to use new technologies and relevant goals to strengthen and uplift our youth.
I also love how the changes to this program involve the family. According to the Questions and Answers section on LDS.org, the program "provides opportunities for parents and leaders to strengthen relationships with young men" and can "easily be integrated into family home evening and quorum meetings and activities."
Families are a huge emphasis throughout the church, but especially when talking about the youth. Young men need good examples and leaders to emulate. When they have these model role models in church leaders and parents, even the most troubled can find the way to becoming good men through spiritual activities and lessons.
And this program is here to help those young men find their testimonies. After years of teaching both at church and at home, the seeds that have been planted can really begin to grow during the formative years of twelve and eighteen.
I look at the young men in the ward I grew up in, and I'm amazed at the great men they have turned into. They have strong testimonies, are tender dads, and honor their priesthood. I'm certain it's in part because of this program. And I'm excited for the young men in my current ward. The changes to the Duty to God program will benefit them in ways they may not understand now, but they certainly will in years to come.
The Duty to God program takes the lofty goals of teaching young men their roles and responsibilities within the priesthood and to God and makes them accessible to the young men. It breaks them down into manageable and understandable principles that the young men can apply in their lives.
While the specific changes to the program haven't yet been announced, they'll be announced and materials will become available between June and August.
For more information about the changes to this program, visit DutytoGod.lds.org.
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Young men need good examples and leaders to emulate.
Wow, so the young women in lds do not need "good examples" because all the women are perfect?
How said that lds has to train men to be good examples for their young people. What's wrong with them that they need training?
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TM4
Thanks for saving the Constitution which was hanging by a thread on that other thread...
Apparently, God has some new requirements for his boy priests. If they do good, they even get certificates!
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Impressive City..
:)
Do you present that certificate to some one at the pearly gates after you take your last breath?
Do you present that certificate to some one at the pearly gates after you take your last breath?
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The mormons believe that is Joey Smith...
Their jesus has nothing to do with who gets into their mormon afterlife...
The mormons need Joey Smith to let them into the mormon afterlife…
...and does sit in judgment on us according to Brigham Young and others who tells us he must “certify” us into glory”
Second President Brigham Young once remarked,
“I know that Joseph Smith is a Prophet of God, that this is the Gospel of salvation, and if you do not believe it you will be damned, every one of you”
(Journal of Discourses 4:298, March 29, 1857).
On October 9, 1859, Young said,
“From the day that the Priesthood was taken from the earth to the winding-up scene of all things, every man and woman must have the certificate of Joseph Smith, junior, as a passport to their entrance into the mansion where God and Christ are — I with you and you with me. I cannot go there without his consent”
(Journal of Discourses 7:289).
“He (Joseph Smith) is the man through whom God has spoken... yet I would not like to call him a savior, though in a certain capacity he was a god to us, and is to the nations of the earth, and will continue to be.”
- Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses 8:321
“You call us fools; but the day will be, gentlemen and ladies, whether you belong to this Church or not, when you will prize brother Joseph Smith as the Prophet of the Living God, and look upon him as a god...”
- Herber C. Kimball, Journal of Discourses 5:88
“If we get our salvation, we shall have to pass by him [Joseph Smith]; if we enter our glory, it will be through the authority he has received. We cannot get around him [Joseph Smith]”
- (as quoted in 1988 Melchizedek Priesthood Study Guide, p. 142)
There is “no salvation without accepting Joseph Smith. If Joseph Smith was verily a prophet, and if he told the truth...no man can reject that testimony without incurring the most dreadful consequences, for he cannot enter the kingdom of God”
- Joseph Fielding Smith, Doctrines of Salvation, vol. 1, p.190
“I tell you, Joseph holds the keys, and none of us can get into the celestial kingdom without passing by him. We have not got rid of him, but he stands there as the sentinel, holding the keys of the kingdom of God; and there are many of them beside him. I tell you, if we get past those who have mingled with us, and know us best, and have a right to know us best, probably we can pass all other sentinels as far as it is necessary, or as far as we may desire. But I tell you, the pinch will be with those that have mingled with us, stood next to us, weighed our spirits, tried us, and proven us: there will be a pinch, in my view, to get past them. The others, perhaps, will say, If brother Joseph is satisfied with you, you may pass. If it is all right with him, it is all right with me. Then if Joseph shall say to a man, or if brother Brigham say to a man, I forgive you your sins, “Whosoever sins ye remit they are remitted unto them;” if you who have suffered and felt the weight of transgression—if you have generosity enough to forgive the sinner, I will forgive him: you cannot have more generosity than I have. I have given you power to forgive sins, and when the Lord gives a gift, he does not take it back again.”
- Orson Hyde, Journal of Discourses, Vol. 6, p.154-155
...to get by Joseph Smith...
They succeeded in killing Joseph, but he had finished his work.
He was a servant of God, and gave us the Book of Mormon.
He said the Bible was right in the main, but, through the translators and others, many precious portions were suppressed, and several other portions were wrongly translated; and now his testimony is in force, for he has sealed it with his blood.
As I have frequently told them, no man in this dispensation will enter the courts of heaven, without the approbation of the Prophet Joseph Smith, Jun.
Who has made this so?
Have I?
Have this people?
Have the world?
No; but the Lord Jehovah has decreed it.
If I ever pass into the heavenly courts, it will be by the consent of the Prophet Joseph.
If you ever pass through the gates into the Holy City, you will do so upon his certificate that you are worthy to pass.
Can you pass without his inspection?
No; neither can any person in this dispensation, which is the dispensation of the fulness of times.
In this generation, and in all the generations that are to come, everyone will have to undergo the scrutiny of this Prophet.
They say that they killed Joseph, and they will yet come with their hats under their arms and bend to him; but what good will it do them, unless they repent?
They can come in a certain way and find favor, but will they?
“If I ever pass into heavenly courts, it will be by the consent of Prophet Joseph”
—Brigham Young
—JOURNAL OF DISCOURSES, vol. 8, p. 224
I've posted some Mormon women's photos in the past. I'm not sure what that perfection extends to...
Wow, so the young women in lds do not need “good examples” because all the women are perfect?
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No the mormons believe that females are doomed to always be inferior to mormon men...
amd they dont “resurrect” like men do...
Oh no, they are earthly certificates. Probably with a certain amount of ceremony and applause.
Women cannot get into LDS heaven on their own. Their husbands must call them into heaven by using their secret name.
I' d be afraid my husband would forget and call "HONEY!" and then several million women would answer. I'd never get a word in edgewise again!
“and honor their priesthood”
The LDS priesthood is as Biblical as the LDS magic underwear!
Forget ‘honey’. EVERY WOMAN who goes through the temple on any given day gets the SAME ‘new name’. Then SLC rotates a small number of names through. So a more likely outcome is:
“Sara5678 your party is waiting at the gates of the Celestial Kingdom, Sara 5687, your party is waiting”
because if he just calls Sara then millions of women would show up.
HEY!!!
This is a DUPLICATE thread!!
An FR nono!
The MODs should take it DOWN and chastise the poster!!
—MormonDude(Shame on you ANTIs!)
Oh wow the anti-Mormons are out thick today.
It’s a propaganda-fest!!
“It’s a propaganda-fest!!
Please point out anything I posted above that is “propaganda” and show how that is true.
In other words, please show how the LDS priesthood is in
any way Biblical.
Also, please show that the mormonic-magic-underwear is Biblical, using the Bible.
... and I assume you will do both these things typing
while wearing magic under?
And if you can’t answer this, then your post rings quite hollow.
Thanks,
ampu
Thank you, T for posting this so that we may actually DISCUSS it, rather than just go ‘oh isn’t that great’.
I see you are not afraid of defending your faith, Praise God!
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