manual for next year

[Dravin]

Shouldn't that be:

4. Go to meetings? (Not talking about sacrament here)

[Vort]

That's more of an anti-mission, Dravin.

[LDSVALLEY]

4th mission of the church is tied into the 14th article of faith.

We will hold many and all meetings, we need to meet as often as possible in order to further discuss the same things discussed in other meetings. This is to cover those who don't write things down from the first five meetings something was said in and for High Priest how fall asleep after 10 minutes.

Any time three or more members are within 5 miles of each other a meeting shall be called. In order to better prepare for meetings members who attend meetings will receive training from a meeting training teacher. Pre meetings to discuss what will be discussed in meetings will be encouraged as will post meeting meetings to review the things covered in the meeting.

[Loudmouth_Mormon]

I loved teaching out of that book, and was sad when they released me. Then 4 years later, I got to teach it again, and was sad again when they released me. Now as EQ sec, I get to teach it again!

Maybe a quarter to a third the stuff I have to say on this board is based on simple eternal truths that the Gospel Principles manual helped me figure out.

I managed to scoop the bishopric with the news. By the time they heard about the manuals, I already had mine, and was 4-5 chapters into it, comparing aginst the old version, marking every new word, every change. Not much has changed. Maybe the biggest change is including the Proclomation on the Family stuff (the old book came out just barely before the Proclomation), and clarifications on same-sex stuff. They shuffled some chapters around, added, changed, or removed some scritpural references here and there, de-emphasised some things and emphasized other things. Mostly minor.

LM

[MarginOfError]

There are a number of changes that are being made. To begin, it is my understanding that all the references to Mormon Doctrine have been removed. The new edition also, reportedly, downplays or eliminates some teachings such as whether or not faithful members can become gods, if God was always a god, heavenly parents, were Adam and Eve the progenitors of the human race, and whether or not the organization of the latter-day Church is complete.

Some have speculated that the changes reflect a move by the Church to distance itself from some of the more non-core beliefs that have been debated at great length here and throughout the past century and a half. Other interpret the changes as a desire to get back to basics. Personally, I think both are perfectly plausible solutions.

[Misshalfway]

Other interpret the changes as a desire to get back to basics. Personally, I think both are perfectly plausible solutions.

Well, it is the Gospel "Essentials" manual.

I was visiting another forum where these changes were being discussed. It seemed to many of the posters there that the church was backing away from its doctrine. Personally, I like the distancing from what I feel is intelligent speculation. I don't think the change compromises the churches position. Maybe it just reaffirms what we do know officially and what we don't.

[MarginOfError]

Originally Posted by Misshalfway

Well, it is the Gospel "Essentials" manual.

I was visiting another forum where these changes were being discussed. It seemed to many of the posters there that the church was backing away from its doctrine. Personally, I like the distancing from what I feel is intelligent speculation. I don't think the change compromises the churches position. Maybe it just reaffirms what we do know officially and what we don't.

That's a very good way to articulate it. Personally, I think people are putting too much stock in the book anyway. People who rely on Gospel Principles to identify doctrine are just waiting to be disappointed. The thing that needs to be made clear is that the only pure source of doctrine are in the Standard Works. The new manual should be used as a starting point for diving into the scriptures.

[Misshalfway]

Yeah. I agree.

[Palerider]

This is the breakdown....Gospel Principles will be used on the second and third sunday......Teaching for our Times the 4th sunday.....1st sunday is usually left up to the local leaders.....

[Snow]

Originally Posted by Dravin

Shouldn't that be:

4. Go to meetings? (Not talking about sacrament here)

I've often lammented, on a Sunday, trying to plan our family meals, when we had a morning block, meetings in the afternoon followed by other meetings in the night why the Church was so bent on doing everything they possibly could to prevent the family from being together.