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How to testify
Lds Church News ^
| Sept. 19, 2009
Posted on 09/20/2009 2:46:15 PM PDT by 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...
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TOPICS: Other Christian; Theology
KEYWORDS: antimormonthread; josephsmith; lds; mormon; testimony
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To: Elsie
141
posted on
09/21/2009 5:42:26 AM PDT
by
Utah Binger
(Mount Carmel Utah, Where Freepers Roam Seeking America)
To: Elsie
...You forgot to include Monkeyface in the TO: box...So did you.
142
posted on
09/21/2009 6:11:21 AM PDT
by
Monkey Face
(I wear a yellow ribbon for ForgotenKnight, my army hero grandson.)
To: Elsie
I am so glad I always seem to bug you!:)
143
posted on
09/21/2009 6:15:39 AM PDT
by
restornu
(Creeds are like detour signs)
To: Colofornian; greyfoxx39
Sorry, my bad. It was greyfoxx.
Please don't ping me to your Mormon-bashing threads.
144
posted on
09/21/2009 6:19:27 AM PDT
by
TChris
(There is no freedom without the possibility of failure.)
To: All
False Testimonies Placemarker
To: TChris; colorcountry; Colofornian; Elsie; FastCoyote; svcw; Zakeet; SkyPilot; rightazrain; ...
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.
146
posted on
09/21/2009 7:01:18 AM PDT
by
greyfoxx39
(ObaMugabe is turning this country into another Zimbabwe as fast as he can with media's help.)
To: Elsie
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".
147
posted on
09/21/2009 7:02:50 AM PDT
by
DelphiUser
("You can lead a man to knowledge, but you can't make him think")
To: Elsie
Got a LIST of the ABOMINATIONS in this thing?
No need, one believed by all orthodox Christianity will do.
148
posted on
09/21/2009 7:04:16 AM PDT
by
DelphiUser
("You can lead a man to knowledge, but you can't make him think")
To: Elsie
I believe the rules of an open forum are that you cannot interpet what I say. Please stop now.
149
posted on
09/21/2009 7:05:36 AM PDT
by
DelphiUser
("You can lead a man to knowledge, but you can't make him think")
To: DelphiUser
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...
150
posted on
09/21/2009 7:06:24 AM PDT
by
greyfoxx39
(ObaMugabe is turning this country into another Zimbabwe as fast as he can with media's help.)
To: Elsie
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).
151
posted on
09/21/2009 7:07:25 AM PDT
by
DelphiUser
("You can lead a man to knowledge, but you can't make him think")
To: Monkey Face
When did you accept Jesus as your Savior? How did this act come to pass?
152
posted on
09/21/2009 7:15:11 AM PDT
by
svcw
(Legalism reinforces self-righteousness - it communicates to you the good news of your own goodness)
To: DelphiUser
So you do believe in and worship three gods?
153
posted on
09/21/2009 7:16:00 AM PDT
by
svcw
(Legalism reinforces self-righteousness - it communicates to you the good news of your own goodness)
To: Elsie
I'll see that bet and raise you two cureloms.
154
posted on
09/21/2009 7:18:44 AM PDT
by
greyfoxx39
(ObaMugabe is turning this country into another Zimbabwe as fast as he can with media's help.)
To: TChris; Colofornian; DelphiUser
155
posted on
09/21/2009 7:42:04 AM PDT
by
colorcountry
(A faith without truth is not true faith.)
To: svcw
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?
156
posted on
09/21/2009 7:50:17 AM PDT
by
Monkey Face
(I wear a yellow ribbon for ForgotenKnight, my army hero grandson.)
To: DelphiUser
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...
To: Monkey Face
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.
158
posted on
09/21/2009 7:56:24 AM PDT
by
svcw
(Legalism reinforces self-righteousness - it communicates to you the good news of your own goodness)
To: greyfoxx39
“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.
To: svcw
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?
160
posted on
09/21/2009 7:59:28 AM PDT
by
Monkey Face
(I wear a yellow ribbon for ForgotenKnight, my army hero grandson.)
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