What I Learned in Church Today
- "Lord, I believe. Help thou mine unbelief." (Mark 9:24) We should recognise our strengths before we acknowledge our weaknesses.
- Wilford Woodruff was once challenged when preaching by a man who asked whether he had a college diploma, then told that he was not permitted to preach because he didn't. He pointed out to this man that Jesus and his disciples had no qualifications. The only qualification required to preach the gospel is the Holy Ghost.
- One of the first fruits of the Spirit is the ability to share it with others.
- Humility is the realisation of our sole dependence upon God.
- Gethsemane is an olive orchard, and the olives grown there were not eaten but were crushed for oil. The ripe olives being plucked from the life-giving vine to be crushed may be seen as a metaphor for the work Christ did in Gethsemane.
- “He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father” (John 14:21) Obedience shows love, and brings love.
- It's easier to obey a rule if we know the reason behind it, but we can't choose to only obey commandments and rules that we understand.
- God is our literal father, but Jesus Christ is also our father in many ways. We have our new lives through him, (Mosiah 5:7), we are adopted into his family when was are baptised and take his name upon us (Galatians 4:5) and under the direction of his father he created all things physically, including us. (John 1:3)
- Wilford Woodruff was once challenged when preaching by a man who asked whether he had a college diploma, then told that he was not permitted to preach because he didn't. He pointed out to this man that Jesus and his disciples had no qualifications. The only qualification required to preach the gospel is the Holy Ghost.
- One of the first fruits of the Spirit is the ability to share it with others.
- Humility is the realisation of our sole dependence upon God.
- Gethsemane is an olive orchard, and the olives grown there were not eaten but were crushed for oil. The ripe olives being plucked from the life-giving vine to be crushed may be seen as a metaphor for the work Christ did in Gethsemane.
- “He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father” (John 14:21) Obedience shows love, and brings love.
- It's easier to obey a rule if we know the reason behind it, but we can't choose to only obey commandments and rules that we understand.
- God is our literal father, but Jesus Christ is also our father in many ways. We have our new lives through him, (Mosiah 5:7), we are adopted into his family when was are baptised and take his name upon us (Galatians 4:5) and under the direction of his father he created all things physically, including us. (John 1:3)
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