The Family: A Proclamation to the World

All registered users can post here.
Angela
Posts: 837
Joined: Sun Jun 04, 2006 4:36 pm

Re: The Family: A Proclamation to the World

Post by Angela »

Thanks Steve for posting this! I really enjoyed reading it!! It's an excellent reminder of who is really at the head of our church, and who ultimately is undermined by those who cast doubt on His chosen prophets and apostles. It saddens me to read Elder Cannon say
those who speak against the authorities and lift their hands against the holy Priesthood of this Church invariably deny the faith. I have never seen it otherwise. You may trace the history of this people from the beginning and you will find that every man who has indulged in this spirit has always come out and denied the faith.
"
but, we can always hope and pray for those people.

In our ward's relief society meeting last sunday, our relief society president briefly mentioned the addition to the handbook and asked that we prepare ourselves to defend the church and also asked us not to be offended. I appreciated her comments and will have to try to speak up about defending the church.
User avatar
Tuly
Posts: 4388
Joined: Tue Jun 06, 2006 9:16 pm

Re: The Family: A Proclamation to the World

Post by Tuly »

I have been rereading Julie Beck's Teaching the Doctrine of the Family - Ensign March 2011 - this is the short version - https://www.lds.org/ensign/2011/03/teac ... y?lang=eng

This is the complete pdf version of Sister Beck's talk - that she gave at the Seminaries and Institutes of Religion Satellite Broadcast • August 4, 2009 • Conference Center Theater
https://theredheadedhostess.com/wp-cont ... y__eng.pdf

Ian mentioned this talk in our website. Here are some important highlights.
Threats to the Family

In addition to understanding the theology of the family, we all need to understand the threats to the family. If we don’t, we can’t prepare for the battle. Evidence is all around us that the family is becoming less important. Marriage rates are declining, the age of marriage is rising, and divorce rates are rising. Out-of-wedlock births are growing. Abortion is rising and becoming increasingly legal. We see lower birth rates. We see unequal relationships between men and women, and we see cultures that still practice abuse within family relationships. Many times a career gains importance over the family.

Many of our youth are losing confidence in the institution of families. They’re placing more and more value on education and less and less importance on forming an eternal family. Many don’t see forming families as a faith-based work. For them, it’s a selection process much like shopping. Many also distrust their own moral strength and the moral strength of their peers. Because temptations are so fierce, many are not sure they can be successful in keeping covenants.

Many youth also have insufficient and underdeveloped social skills, which are an impediment to forming eternal families. They are increasingly adept at talking to someone 50 miles (80 km) away and less able to carry on conversations with people in the same room. That makes it difficult for them to socialize with each other.

We also face the problem that we read about in Ephesians 6:12: “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” Public policies are being made every day that are antifamily, and the definition of family is changing legally around the world. Pornography is rampant. For those who create pornography, their new target audience is young women. Parents are being portrayed as inept and out of touch. Antifamily media messages are everywhere. Youth are being desensitized about the need to form eternal families.

We see how this can happen when we read the words of Korihor, an anti-Christ: “Thus he did preach unto them, leading away the hearts of many, causing them to lift up their heads in their wickedness, yea, leading away many women, and also men, to commit whoredoms” (Alma 30:18). Satan knows that he will never have a body; he will never have a family. So he targets young women, who will create the bodies for the future generations.

Korihor was an anti-Christ. Anti-Christ is antifamily. Any doctrine or principle our youth hear from the world that is antifamily is also anti-Christ. It’s that clear. If our youth cease to believe in the righteous traditions of their fathers as did the people described in Mosiah 26, if our youth don’t understand their part in the plan, they could be led away.
Live the Hope of Eternal Life

Parents, teachers, and leaders: live in your homes, in your families, in your marriages so that youth will develop hope for eternal life from watching you. Live and teach with so much clarity that what you teach will cut through all the noise youth are hearing and so that it will pierce their hearts and touch them.

Live in your home so that you’re brilliant in the basics, so that you’re intentional about your roles and responsibilities in the family. Think in terms of precision not perfection. If you have your goals and you are precise in how you go about them in your homes, youth will learn from you. They will learn that you pray, study the scriptures together, have family home evening, make a priority of mealtimes, and speak respectfully of your marriage partner. Then from your example the rising generation will gain great hope.
"Condemn me not because of mine imperfection,... but rather give thanks unto God that he hath made manifest unto you our imperfections, that ye may learn to be more wise than we have been." Mormon 9:31
User avatar
Ian
Site Admin
Posts: 2307
Joined: Sat Jun 03, 2006 12:46 pm

Re: The Family: A Proclamation to the World

Post by Ian »

it has been nearly two years since the church made changes to its handbook in relation to "same-sex marriage." elder christofferson was asked to explain what prompted the changes. his response:
To some degree it came from questions that have surfaced in different parts of the world and the United States. With the Supreme Court’s decision in the United States, there was a need for a distinction to be made between what may be legal and what may be the law of the Church and the law of the Lord and how we respond to that. So it’s a matter of being clear; it’s a matter of understanding right and wrong; it’s a matter of a firm policy that doesn’t allow for question or doubt. We think it’s possible and mandatory, incumbent upon us as disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ, to yield no ground in the matter of love and sympathy and help and brotherhood and serving in doing all we can for anybody; at the same time maintaining the standards He maintained. That was the Savior’s pattern. He always was firm in what was right and wrong. He never excused or winked at sin. He never redefined it. He never changed His mind. It was what it was and is what it is and that’s where we are, but His compassion, of course, was unexcelled and His desire and willingness and proactive efforts to minister, to heal, to bless, to lift and to bring people toward the path that leads to happiness never ceased. That’s where we are. We’re not going to stop that. We’re not going to yield on our efforts to help people find what brings happiness, but we know sin does not. And so we’re going to stand firm there because we don’t want to mislead people. There’s no kindness in misdirecting people and leading them into any misunderstanding about what is true, what is right, what is wrong, what leads to Christ and what leads away from Christ.
so let it be written... so let it be done.
User avatar
Steve
Moderator
Posts: 2567
Joined: Mon Jun 05, 2006 10:08 pm
Location: Provo, UT

Re: The Family: A Proclamation to the World

Post by Steve »

I'm grateful for Elder Christofferson's clear explanation. I agree with everything he said. Reading these things reminds me of the thoughts I shared in the Anonymity & Confrontation thread earlier this year.

Truly, there is "no kindness in misdirecting people and leading them into any misunderstanding about what is true, what is right, what is wrong, what leads to Christ and what leads away from Christ."
A milk-and-water allegiance kills; while a passionate devotion gives life and soul to any cause and its adherents. The troubles of the world may largely be laid at the doors of those who are neither hot nor cold; who always follow the line of least resistance; whose timid hearts flutter at taking sides for truth. As in the great Council in the heavens, so in the Church of Christ on earth, there can be no neutrality. ... Tolerance is not conformity to the world’s view and practices. We must not surrender our beliefs to get along with people, however beloved or influential they may be. Too high a price may be paid for social standing or even for harmony.

(Elder John A. Widtsoe, General Conference, April 1941)
When God can do what he will with a man, the man may do what he will with the world.     ~George MacDonald
User avatar
Steve
Moderator
Posts: 2567
Joined: Mon Jun 05, 2006 10:08 pm
Location: Provo, UT

Re: The Family: A Proclamation to the World

Post by Steve »

We remind ourselves on this day that we are charged with the transcendent responsibility of building and maintaining his kingdom in the earth. It is in the hope that I may add a word of contribution to that greatest of all causes that I bring to you a somewhat practical suggestion on this sacred day. Termites are permeating the foundation of the kingdom—the homes of the people—even more destructive and elusive than those semi-microscopic little animals that break down our walls. Corrective measures are imperative.

I have chosen to make some comment on a theme which I earnestly hope may not prove to be too provocative, and certainly not offensive, to our sisters and to other women who may listen. I lift my text, with full acknowledgment, from an article appearing in This Week Magazine of some months ago, and recently reprinted in the Reader's Digest, written by Judge Samuel S. Leibowitz, senior judge of Brooklyn's highest criminal court. The article is entitled: "Nine Words That Can Stop Juvenile Delinquency," and the nine words used by the Judge are these: "Put Father Back at the Head of the Family." ...

May I take a few minutes to give you our concept of home, fatherhood, and motherhood? Nothing occupies a more unique and distinctive and important position in our theology and understanding of God's purposes for his children.

We define a home as being a divinely appointed institution established on the enduring compact of a good man and a good woman, wherein spiritual children of our Eternal Father are permitted to receive mortal bodies endowed with eternal intelligence, these children so received in the home to be nurtured in health and so guided in the ways of living by loving and wise parents that they may be conditioned on completion of their lives to return to the presence of the Lord whence their spirits originally came. In this greatest of all enterprises the man and the woman are partners—co-signers, if you will, of the enduring compact which binds them together.

In this eternal compact, however, there is a feature which may not be understood by many thousands of men and women who enter into Christian marriage. It is the element of priesthood. Two things have been revealed about priesthood and marriage which are of most vital importance. First, that no marriage which is to endure forever, so that in essence a home may be projected into eternity, may be established without the authorization and sanction of divinely appointed priesthood. And secondly, that no marriage is eligible for the solemnization of divinely appointed priesthood without the man party to the compact having first received the endowment of the Holy Priesthood himself.

We call the ordinance of marriage when performed not only for time but for all eternity a sealing—a sealing of a good woman to a good man of the priesthood, with the express understanding and covenant that the priesthood of the man, if he shall be faithful and live worthy to enjoy it, shall be the supreme authority of the household, and no good woman of our faith begrudges her worthy husband of the priesthood the respect which goes with his high calling. She knows that to build him up in the esteem of their children, and thus make him conscious of the responsibility of leadership is the surest safeguard she can bring to her family in a world of temptation. The women of the Church rejoice in the priesthood of their husbands. They know that that priesthood is not expressed in autocratic or unrighteous dominion. They know that it is a divinely given power to be exercised only in long-suffering and patience, kindness and mercy, "reproving betimes with sharpness, when moved upon by the Holy Ghost; and then showing forth afterwards an increase of love toward him" who hast been reproved (D&C 121:43). They know that that priesthood has true virtue within it—the power to bless, the power to heal, the power to counsel, to make peace and harmony prevail.

Perhaps the saddest of all our women are they who see their husbands fall away from that priesthood with which they have been endowed. They are the wives who are filled with anxiety for the future of themselves and their, families. In the true companionship of a husband of the priesthood a good woman may pass through any trouble and have comfort, resignation, and peace. But if her husband fails her and fails his holy calling, it is hard indeed for consolation to come to her. She grieves, she prays, she pleads—sometimes seemingly in vain.

You husbands of the priesthood who have been neglectful of your covenants, I plead with you, in behalf of sorrowing wives and families, to relieve the pain you are causing those who love you, to regain manhood and strength and be worthy to assume in righteousness the leadership of your families. They want to respect you. They will if you will let them.

I think I have spoken for the great majority of our wives and mothers. There may be, however, a few who are not helping as much as they may do in the maintenance and re-establishment of respect for proper authority and leadership in the home. We have many brilliant women. I have admiration for their superior accomplishments. They are continually becoming more influential in all aspects of life and living, and I have no doubt but that their contributions will be of lasting value. If any of these brilliant women is a mother, I give it as my firm belief that however potent she may be in matters extraneous to the home, she has no higher, loftier, and more divinely given calling and obligation than to be the right kind of wife and mother in her home. And however superior her attainments may be, she owes a duty to her husband, to respect him as head of the family and adequately teach her children to do likewise. ...

It seems indelicate in an address of this character even to use the expression, "nagging wives." If I did not regard the matter pertinent to the subject I am discussing, I would not mention it. I feel that women who may be said to be in this category cannot be fully conscious, whatever their provocation may be, of the damage they do to the morale of a home. I give to women generally the credit for being long-suffering and patient, and I think that in the foreseeable future they will still be called upon for great toleration, but I hope they will still be able to show kindness and patience to those who may annoy them. I think that parental disputes before the children are one of the most regrettable and lamentable of all aspects of domestic relations. They are responsible for more disruption of domestic tranquility and inimical effects on children than almost any other occurrences in family life. I suppose inevitably parents will have some differences. For the sake of everybody concerned let them be settled privately, and of course they can be settled privately if a spirit of tolerance and a recognition of responsibility prevail. I think that "nagging wives" cannot nag their husbands into doing anything that is worth while. Nagging is futile in the main, and disruptive of any spirit of harmony and peace. In homes where the priesthood presides rebellion and devotion will not thrive together. ...

There must be clear recognition between right and wrong, and there must be sound, wise, and kindly discipline. In the midst of the somewhat confusing theories advanced by the sociologists and criminologists, it seems to me we cannot be going far afield by endeavoring to furnish to youth criteria for the guidance of their lives. There are no criteria which seem dependable excepting only those which have been tried and not found wanting, principles of righteousness and truth, coming to us from divine sources. I cannot see how any intelligent parent can feel much in the way of hazard and uncertainty in having his child brought up to recognize the traditionally divinely approved virtues and principles of conduct. ...

Sunday School teachers and others may give to the growing child teachings concerning good and evil, but who like the father of the family can teach the power of the Adversary and the resistance necessary to be built up to resist his seductive temptations to the children for whom he is responsible? Who can demonstrate to the child by the power of example the virtues and the standards of righteousness as can this head of the family?

To all who believe that order is the law of heaven and that the kingdom of God is established on the principles of righteousness, I submit these questions: Can order be maintained without acceptance of law and without discipline? Is discipline possible without recognition of authority?

(President Stephen L. Richards, The Father and the Home, April 1958 General Conference)
When God can do what he will with a man, the man may do what he will with the world.     ~George MacDonald
User avatar
Steve
Moderator
Posts: 2567
Joined: Mon Jun 05, 2006 10:08 pm
Location: Provo, UT

Re: The Family: A Proclamation to the World

Post by Steve »

I'll finish with this one, since it seems so relevant to the recent discussions here and on Telegram.
Twenty years ago, the First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve Apostles reached out to the entire world when issuing a proclamation on the family. Since then, attacks on the family have increased.

If we are to be successful in our sacred responsibilities as daughters of God, we must understand the eternal significance of and our individual responsibility to teach truths about our Heavenly Father’s plan for His family. President Howard W. Hunter explained:

“There is a great need to rally the women of the Church to stand with and for the Brethren in stemming the tide of evil that surrounds us and in moving forward the work of our Savior."

(Sister Carole M. Stephens, The Family Is of God, April 2015 General Conference)
When God can do what he will with a man, the man may do what he will with the world.     ~George MacDonald
User avatar
Steve
Moderator
Posts: 2567
Joined: Mon Jun 05, 2006 10:08 pm
Location: Provo, UT

Re: The Family: A Proclamation to the World

Post by Steve »

Oops. One more from the same conference. Note the Proclamation's role in judging the world's philosophies.
When President Gordon B. Hinckley first read “The Family: A Proclamation to the World” 20 years ago this year, we were grateful for and valued the clarity, simplicity, and truth of this revelatory document. Little did we realize then how very desperately we would need these basic declarations in today’s world as the criteria by which we could judge each new wind of worldly dogma coming at us from the media, the Internet, scholars, TV and films, and even legislators. The proclamation on the family has become our benchmark for judging the philosophies of the world, and I testify that the principles set forth within this statement are as true today as they were when they were given to us by a prophet of God nearly 20 years ago. ...

I would like to issue a challenge for all of us as women of the Church to be defenders of “The Family: A Proclamation to the World.” Just as Marie Madeline Cardon courageously defended the missionaries and her newly found beliefs, we need to boldly defend the Lord’s revealed doctrines describing marriage, families, the divine roles of men and women, and the importance of homes as sacred places—even when the world is shouting in our ears that these principles are outdated, limiting, or no longer relevant. Everyone, no matter what their marital circumstance or number of children, can be defenders of the Lord’s plan described in the family proclamation. If it is the Lord’s plan, it should also be our plan!

(Sister Bonnie L. Oscarson, Defenders of the Family Proclamation, April 2015 General Conference)
Who'll accept the challenge?
When God can do what he will with a man, the man may do what he will with the world.     ~George MacDonald
User avatar
Steve
Moderator
Posts: 2567
Joined: Mon Jun 05, 2006 10:08 pm
Location: Provo, UT

Re: The Family: A Proclamation to the World

Post by Steve »

The proclamation’s clear and simple language stands in stark contrast to the confused and convoluted notions of a society that cannot even agree on a definition of family, let alone supply the help and support parents and families need. ...

Today I call upon members of the Church and on committed parents, grandparents, and extended family members everywhere to hold fast to this great proclamation, to make it a banner not unlike General Moroni’s “title of liberty,” and to commit ourselves to live by its precepts. ...

Brothers and sisters, as we hold up like a banner the proclamation to the world on the family and as we live and teach the gospel of Jesus Christ, we will fulfill the measure of our creation here on earth.

(Elder M. Russell Ballard, What Matters Most Is What Lasts Longest, October 2005 General Conference)
When God can do what he will with a man, the man may do what he will with the world.     ~George MacDonald
User avatar
Steve
Moderator
Posts: 2567
Joined: Mon Jun 05, 2006 10:08 pm
Location: Provo, UT

Re: The Family: A Proclamation to the World

Post by Steve »

Latter-day Saints therefore have no choice but to stand up and to speak up whenever the institution of the family is concerned, even if we are misunderstood, resented, or brushed aside.

(Elder Neal A. Maxwell, “Take Especial Care of Your Family”, April 1994 General Conference)
When God can do what he will with a man, the man may do what he will with the world.     ~George MacDonald
User avatar
Tuly
Posts: 4388
Joined: Tue Jun 06, 2006 9:16 pm

Re: The Family: A Proclamation to the World

Post by Tuly »

When I started this thread (2015), the first quote I posted was President Hinckley's quote which was given the night the family proclamation was given 1995 - I have read every possible manual and sermon given on this proclamation.
I look into the eyes of grandmothers and great-grandmothers whose years are many, who have weathered the storms that have beat upon them and who have drunk deeply from the waters of life, some of them brackish, some of them sweet. I am grateful for the presence of each one of you. I am grateful for the strength that you have and for your loyalty, your faith, your love. I am thankful for the resolution which you carry in your hearts to walk in faith, to keep the commandments, to do what is right at all times and in all circumstances.
I continue to testify that this proclamation will save many families, I believed it then 1995 and continue to believe its truthfulness now. That while there may be some who resent its message, you need to know that I have weathered many storms through obedience to the standards of this proclamation. John and I will celebrate our 41st anniversary tomorrow. How grateful we have both been to have commandments to weather some of the "brackish (briny) waters of life"

I agree with President Hinckley's quote two years after the family proclamation was announced -
“I see a wonderful future in a very uncertain world. If we will cling to our values, if we will build on our inheritance, if we will walk in obedience before the Lord, if we will simply live the gospel, we will be blessed in a magnificent and wonderful way. We will be looked upon as a peculiar people who have found the key to a peculiar happiness.”
I also appreciate this prophetic statement from President Benson - I have witnessed many tests in my life time.
“every generation has its tests and its chance to stand and prove itself.”
I love and trust our Brethren as I love and trust our family.
"Condemn me not because of mine imperfection,... but rather give thanks unto God that he hath made manifest unto you our imperfections, that ye may learn to be more wise than we have been." Mormon 9:31
User avatar
Steve
Moderator
Posts: 2567
Joined: Mon Jun 05, 2006 10:08 pm
Location: Provo, UT

Re: The Family: A Proclamation to the World

Post by Steve »

Some great quotes by President Joseph F. Smith about those who challenge things like the Family Proclamation in our day and who dismiss the brethren in favor of their own ideas of right and wrong. It's not always malice that drives them. Often it is simply ignorance on account of feeble effort, as President Smith explains.
Many and many an individual has arisen in times past, and these individuals have been falsely impressed with the idea that they were going to work a wonderful reformation in the Church; they anticipated that in a very short time the whole people would desert their standard, the standard of truth to which they had gathered and around which they had rallied from the beginning of the Church until then. ...

From the beginning until now, we have had to face the entire world; and the whole world, comparatively, is or has been arrayed against the work of the Lord, not all on account of hatred, not solely with the intent or desire in their hearts to do evil or to fight the truth, but because they were ignorant of the truth, and because they knew not what they were doing. Many are deceived by the voice of false shepherds, and are misled by false influences. They are deceived; they know not the truth; they understand not what they do and, therefore, they are arrayed, as it were, against the truth, against the work of the Lord; so it has been from the beginning. ...

You have never found the friend to righteousness, the friend to revelation, the friend to God, the friend to truth, the friend to righteous living and purity of life, or he who is devoted to righteousness and is broad enough to comprehend truth from error and light from darkness—I say you have never found such as these arrayed against the cause of Zion. To be arrayed against the cause of Zion is to be arrayed against God, against revelation from God, against that spirit that leads men into all truth that cometh from the source of light and intelligence, against that principle that brings men together and causes them to forsake their sins, to seek righteousness, to love God with all their hearts, mind and strength, and to love their neighbors as themselves.
Among the Latter-day Saints, the preaching of false doctrines disguised as truths of the gospel, may be expected from people of two classes, and practically from these only; they are:

First—The hopelessly ignorant, whose lack of intelligence is due to their indolence and sloth, who make but feeble effort, if indeed any at all, to better themselves by reading and study; those who are afflicted with a dread disease that may develop into an incurable malady—laziness.

Second—The proud and self-vaunting ones, who read by the lamp of their own conceit; who interpret by rules of their own contriving; who have become a law unto themselves, and so pose as the sole judges of their own doings. More dangerously ignorant than the first.

Beware of the lazy and the proud.
When visions, dreams, tongues, prophecy, impressions or any extraordinary gift or inspiration conveys something out of harmony with the accepted revelations of the Church or contrary to the decisions of its constituted authorities, Latter-day Saints may know that it is not of God, no matter how plausible it may appear. Also they should understand that directions for the guidance of the Church will come, by revelation, through the head. All faithful members are entitled to the inspiration of the Holy Spirit for themselves, their families, and for those over whom they are appointed and ordained to preside. But anything at discord with that which comes from God through the head of the Church is not to be received as authoritative or reliable.

(President Joseph F. Smith, Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Joseph F. Smith, Chapter 13)
When God can do what he will with a man, the man may do what he will with the world.     ~George MacDonald
User avatar
Steve
Moderator
Posts: 2567
Joined: Mon Jun 05, 2006 10:08 pm
Location: Provo, UT

Re: The Family: A Proclamation to the World

Post by Steve »

And some more...
It is to be regretted that there is a class of Latter-day Saints, who try, at the risk of principle, to popularize “Mormonism.” They desire to make our religion conform to the doctrines and wishes of other people. They appear to be more concerned about being in harmony with men of the world, than with living according to the principles of the gospel. … Such brethren should remember that the theories of the worldly-wise cannot with safety be engrafted into the principles of the gospel.
When a man makes up his mind to forsake the world and its follies and sins, and identify himself with God’s people, who are everywhere spoken evil of, it takes courage, manhood, independence of character, superior intelligence and a determination that is not common among men; for men shrink from that which is unpopular, from that which will not bring them praise and adulation, from that which will in any degree tarnish that which they call honor or a good name.

(President Joseph F. Smith, Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Joseph F. Smith, Chapter 12)
When God can do what he will with a man, the man may do what he will with the world.     ~George MacDonald
User avatar
Steve
Moderator
Posts: 2567
Joined: Mon Jun 05, 2006 10:08 pm
Location: Provo, UT

Re: The Family: A Proclamation to the World

Post by Steve »

And President McKay...
It is easy enough to do right when in good company, but it is not easy to defend the right when the majority of the crowd are opposing it; and yet, that is the time to show true courage. ... When one knows what is right one should always have the courage to defend it even in the face of ridicule or punishment. Let us be courageous in defense of the right. Be not afraid to speak out for the right.

(President David O. McKay, Teachings of Presidents of the Church: David O. McKay, Chapter 18)
When God can do what he will with a man, the man may do what he will with the world.     ~George MacDonald
User avatar
Steve
Moderator
Posts: 2567
Joined: Mon Jun 05, 2006 10:08 pm
Location: Provo, UT

Re: The Family: A Proclamation to the World

Post by Steve »

When we speak plainly of divorce, abuse, gender identity, contraception, abortion, parental neglect, we are thought by some to be way out of touch or to be uncaring. Some ask if we know how many we hurt when we speak plainly. Do we know of marriages in trouble, of the many who remain single, of single-parent families, of couples unable to have children, of parents with wayward children, or of those confused about gender? Do we know? Do we care?

Those who ask have no idea how much we care; you know little of the sleepless nights, of the endless hours of work, of prayer, of study, of travel—all for the happiness and redemption of mankind.

Because we do know and because we do care, we must teach the rules of happiness without dilution, apology, or avoidance. That is our calling. ...

As we continue on our course, these things will follow as night the day:

The distance between the Church and a world set on a course which we cannot follow will steadily increase.

Some will fall away into apostasy, break their covenants, and replace the plan of redemption with their own rules.

Across the world, those who now come by the tens of thousands will inevitably come as a flood to where the family is safe.

(President Boyd K. Packer, The Father and the Family, April 1994 General Conference)
We're witnessing so many prophecies being fulfilled in our day. How grateful I am for prophets.
When God can do what he will with a man, the man may do what he will with the world.     ~George MacDonald
User avatar
Tuly
Posts: 4388
Joined: Tue Jun 06, 2006 9:16 pm

Re: The Family: A Proclamation to the World

Post by Tuly »

Thank you Steve, I too am very grateful for our prophets - thank you for including that talk by Elder Packer.
"Condemn me not because of mine imperfection,... but rather give thanks unto God that he hath made manifest unto you our imperfections, that ye may learn to be more wise than we have been." Mormon 9:31
Post Reply

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 0 guests