Meet late into the evening or in the early-morning hours.Įncourage open confession or disclosure of personal information normally discussed only in confidential settings.Ĭause a husband and wife to be paired with other parties. We repeat the counsel set forth in the Church Handbook of Instructions, page 157:Ĭhurch members should not participate in groups that:Ĭhallenge religious and moral values or advocate unwarranted confrontation with spouse or family members as a means of reaching one’s potential.įoster physical contact among participants. Neither should the Church’s failure to formally challenge any such enterprise coming to its attention be construed as a tacit endorsement or stamp of approval. The Church has not endorsed any such enterprise. It has come to our attention that some commercial enterprises promising heightened self-esteem, improved family relationships, increased spirituality and the like by participating in their programs are implying Church endorsement. “To General Authorities Area Authority Seventies stake, mission, and district presidents and bishops and branch presidents, to be read in sacrament meeting: Stake Presidents will be notified, announcements sent to wards, and a General Conference mention. If it wasn’t already it’s now on the radar of the SCMC. It will be interesting to see how this turns out for Spencer. Author of the story of the malakand field force, the river war, london to ladysmith, ian hamiltons march, savrola, life of lord randolph churchill with sixty-one illustrations from photographs by the author and lieutenant-colonel gordon wilson, and three maps. That might be threatening to the leaders. Spencer is exhibiting more spiritual gifts than I have ever seen the leaders show.

The leaders don’t care what you do unless you are somehow disrupting their money, power or sex. Look at any major leader, organization, and movement in history and you will find motivations of money, power and/or sex. What should the church do with these people? Would they excommunicate them for being weird? As long as they pay tithing and encourage each other to pay tithing, they are pretty safe. Just because they are different does not mean they are not supporting the doctrines and policies of the church. They might not care about social conventions that are well understood among our people. I like that some people who have a very different way of conducting their spiritual lives.

We have too much order in our church today. The early saints might come to our churches today and wonder where all the visions, revelations and speaking in tongues have gone. Given the early history of the church and the many spiritual manifestations and use of things like seer stones, I think the early Saints would like this.

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