How many Millennials are really leaving the LDS Church?
Posted: August 2nd, 2019, 5:01 pm
One is one too many.
Religion News Service. How many Millennial's are really leaving the LDS Church?
https://religionnews.com/2019/03/27/how ... ds-church/
Grounded, Rooted, Established, Settled(1981).
Indeed it is in the context of such pleasing but challenging growth that the theme for today will be addressed—from the words of Paul and Peter, “grounded, rooted, established, and settled.” This is a vital objective for all members of the Church, but especially for your generation because of the special circumstances which will confront you. In fact, you may be the first generation in Church history, because of lamentably changing conditions in the world, who will be asked to believe and to behave “because of the word” and not circumstances. In varying degrees, you will not have the same affirmative influence of societal institutions which once strongly supported the family and principles such as chastity and fidelity. Those supporting influences, in many respects, will, unfortunately fall away like so much scaffolding. Then we will see who stands, both on holy ground and on holy principles!
Jesus described some of these realities and the casualties of conversion and retention thusly:
Some [seeds] fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth: and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth:
And when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away. [Matthew 13:5–6]https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/neal-a-m ... d-settled/
That from 1981, very prophetic. Thanks Elder Maxwell, surely the world is now even more full of "special circumstances which will confront you". The father of all lies is hardening hearts, and damaging spirits.
Religion News Service. How many Millennial's are really leaving the LDS Church?
https://religionnews.com/2019/03/27/how ... ds-church/
Grounded, Rooted, Established, Settled(1981).
Indeed it is in the context of such pleasing but challenging growth that the theme for today will be addressed—from the words of Paul and Peter, “grounded, rooted, established, and settled.” This is a vital objective for all members of the Church, but especially for your generation because of the special circumstances which will confront you. In fact, you may be the first generation in Church history, because of lamentably changing conditions in the world, who will be asked to believe and to behave “because of the word” and not circumstances. In varying degrees, you will not have the same affirmative influence of societal institutions which once strongly supported the family and principles such as chastity and fidelity. Those supporting influences, in many respects, will, unfortunately fall away like so much scaffolding. Then we will see who stands, both on holy ground and on holy principles!
Jesus described some of these realities and the casualties of conversion and retention thusly:
Some [seeds] fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth: and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth:
And when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away. [Matthew 13:5–6]https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/neal-a-m ... d-settled/
That from 1981, very prophetic. Thanks Elder Maxwell, surely the world is now even more full of "special circumstances which will confront you". The father of all lies is hardening hearts, and damaging spirits.
