How to testify

Lds Church News ^ | Sept. 19, 2009

[Colofornian]

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Sharing testimonies is an important part of the Latter-day Saint experience. We bear testimonies in many settings — in the home with family and among friends and associates or in missionary experiences. In Church, one Sunday is set aside every month for the bearing of testimonies during sacrament meetings.

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In his address at the October 2004 general conference, Elder M. Russell Ballard of the Quorum of the Twelve...said that his experience throughout the Church leads him to worry that too many members' testimonies linger on "I am thankful," and "I love," and too few are able to say with humble but sincere clarity, "I know." As a result, he noted, meetings sometimes lack the testimony-rich, spiritual underpinnings that stir the soul and have meaningful, positive impact on the lives of all those who hear them.

He...counseled, "We need to replace stories, travelogues and lectures with pure testimonies. Those who are entrusted to speak and teach in our meetings need to do so with doctrinal power that will be both heard and felt, lifting the spirits and edifying our people."

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As we listen to general conference this October, we will hear many bear pure testimony. Numerous times over the years, we have heard President Thomas S. Monson, first as an apostle and now as president of the Church, bear such testimony. May we, as Primary children sing, be inclined to "follow the prophet" in our endeavor to nurture, strengthen and share our testimonies that we have a Heavenly Father who loves us, that Jesus is the Christ, Joseph Smith was the prophet who was raised up to restore the fullness of the everlasting gospel...

[Utah Binger]

Back Home?

[Monkey Face]

...You forgot to include Monkeyface in the TO: box...

So did you.

[restornu]

I am so glad I always seem to bug you!:)

[TChris]

Sorry, my bad. It was greyfoxx.

Please don't ping me to your Mormon-bashing threads.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

False Testimonies Placemarker

[greyfoxx39]

Sorry, my bad. It was greyfoxx.
Please don't ping me to your Mormon-bashing threads.

I have NEVER pinged you...try again! Our ping list is moderated and one must have a "recommend" and be "worthy" to be a Flying Inman....kinda like getting into a mormon temple.

[DelphiUser]

Then why do you feel like you have to DO so many other things to make your salvation ASSURED?

Who said salvation could be assured? David, great guy, a "man after the Lords own heart". Messed up, first coveting, then adultery, then murder. Nathan, God's prophet of the day, damned him to hell for a very long time for it. No one can "rest assured" if they do Satan already has them and is "leading them carefully down to hell".

[DelphiUser]

Got a LIST of the ABOMINATIONS in this thing?

No need, one believed by all orthodox Christianity will do.

[DelphiUser]

I believe the rules of an open forum are that you cannot interpet what I say. Please stop now.

[greyfoxx39]

The pejorative tone of your post is most off putting to Lurkers, you might want to tone it down a bit.

ROTFL...at the source of that comment...

[DelphiUser]

I'll see that bet and raise you two cureloms.

I call. Now one of us needs to die and go find out, I already know so... We'll miss you (a little).

[svcw]

When did you accept Jesus as your Savior? How did this act come to pass?

[svcw]

So you do believe in and worship three gods?

[greyfoxx39]

I'll see that bet and raise you two cureloms.

[colorcountry]

Yep indeedy, it was Delphi that pinged TChris to this thread. Perhaps you should ask him to take you off his ping list. :)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2344346/posts?page=5#5

[Monkey Face]

Jesus has always been my Savior.
I thought I’ve made that very clear in all my posts over the months, but most who respond want to know “which Jesus” and there is only one, so the questions are inane.

Why am I being asked about it? Again?

[Tennessee Nana]

Nathan, God’s prophet of the day, damned him to hell for a very long time for it.
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When did Nathan do that to David ???

Source ???

Bible scripture only please...

[svcw]

Well first I did not say which Jesus.
Second I asked you when you accepted Jesus as your personal Savior, and you answered the question.
You haven’t.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

“one must have a “recommend” and be “worthy” to be a Flying Inman....kinda like getting into a mormon temple.

We do have higher standards though...

Grace, pure grace.

[Monkey Face]

Please explain to, in a way that leaves no doubt, how YOU KNOW whether or not I've accepted Jesus as my personal Savior.

There is only one Jesus. If I can believe that YOU have accepted Him, why can't YOU believe that I have?

What is the problem?