Members of the Church can mistakenly develop the mindset that everyone at church on Sunday needs to have the end goal of obtaining the Celestial Kingdom as the driving force for their Church activity.
I simply don’t have all the pieces yet – nor do I know how they all fit. But I know enough to see that God is there in the journey, and that keeps me going.
There is a difference between the sinner and the sin. The sinner is a child of God with a royal heritage. That sin is a mortal action that holds us back from progress.
I knew I had the right guys as I realized that none of them were asking me for details about what happened.
I know of a Bishop once being told that, during his time serving, he would likely offend everyone in the ward. He responded with “Do I have to spread it out over the five years, or can I just stand up and do it all at once to get it over with?”.
