We come to church not to hide our problems but to heal them. It is not an automobile showroom—a place to put ourselves on display so that others can admire our spirituality, capacity, or prosperity.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is more like a service center, where vehicles in need of repair come for maintenance and rehabilitation.
And are we not all in need of repair, maintenance, and rehabilitation?
Artificial discipleship not only keeps us from seeing ourselves as who we really are, but it also prevents us from truly changing through the miracle of the Savior’s Atonement.
The Savior’s Church is a place of healing, not a place of despair, judgment, or sorrow. Jesus Christ, and living His restored gospel, can make of us the genuine, spiritual being of light and truth we desire to be.
@Ch_JesusChrist Awesome!! Temples teach us how to understand our life's journey. I'm so very grateful for the insight I have gained there. God loves us.
@altonbrown Talk about how we mass consume food, its good side and dark side. How restaurants and chefs work into that model, now and historically. From people who deal with food and eating, how can we improve the whole thing. Less waist, more people fed. Save us!
@DGlaucomflecken@RanaAwdish@atscommunity Even if you're a patient and you touch the ventilators, the respiratory therapists are a bit intense, and that was before covid. They do care for the princess of the body, lungs are just....sigh.
We revere the babe of Bethlehem precisely because He later offered the incomprehensible, infinite sacrifice in the Garden of Gethsemane and on the cross of Calvary.
This offering redeems each of us as we choose to repent and follow Him.