Our Campfire of Faith

Gerrit W. Gong October 2018 Saturday Afternoon Session

Scripture citations

  1. Alma 30:44

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    Alma testifies, “All things denote there is a God.” Our Primary children sing, “Whenever I hear the song of a bird or look at the blue, blue sky, … I’m glad that I live in this beautiful world Heav’nly Father created for me.” Author Victor Hugo celebrates the “miraculous relationships between beings and things; in this inexhaustible whole, from sun to aphid.

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  2. Proverbs 3:5

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    There is joy in imagining, learning, doing worthwhile new things.

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  3. Doctrine and Covenants 121:44

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    When we have felt, or feel, uncertain, alone, frustrated, angry, let down, disappointed, or estranged from God and His restored Church, it may take an extra measure of effort and faith to enter again on His covenant path.

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  4. Luke 15:20

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    When we have felt, or feel, uncertain, alone, frustrated, angry, let down, disappointed, or estranged from God and His restored Church, it may take an extra measure of effort and faith to enter again on His covenant path.

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  5. Deuteronomy 6:5

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    The scriptures invite us to place all we are and are becoming on the altar of love and service.

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  6. Joshua 22:5

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    The scriptures invite us to place all we are and are becoming on the altar of love and service.

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  7. Luke 10:27

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    great commandments: “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and thy neighbour as thyself.”
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  8. Mormon 1:18

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    In the Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ, King Benjamin labored “with all the might of his body and the faculty of his whole soul” and established peace in the land.

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  9. Doctrine and Covenants 4:2

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    In the Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ, King Benjamin labored “with all the might of his body and the faculty of his whole soul” and established peace in the land.

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  10. Doctrine and Covenants 59:5

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    In the Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ, King Benjamin labored “with all the might of his body and the faculty of his whole soul” and established peace in the land.

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  11. Doctrine and Covenants 121:45

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    When righteous patterns and spiritual yearnings join, time and eternity come together.

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  12. John 14:6

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    God’s invitations are full of love and possibility because Jesus Christ is “the way, the truth, and the life.” To those who feel burdened, He invites, “Come unto me,” and to those who come to Him, He promises, “I will give you rest.” “Come unto Christ, and be perfected in him, … love God with all your might, mind and strength, then is his grace sufficient for you, that by his grace ye may be perfect in Christ.”

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  13. Matthew 11:28

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    God’s invitations are full of love and possibility because Jesus Christ is “the way, the truth, and the life.” To those who feel burdened, He invites, “Come unto me,” and to those who come to Him, He promises, “I will give you rest.” “Come unto Christ, and be perfected in him, … love God with all your might, mind and strength, then is his grace sufficient for you, that by his grace ye may be perfect in Christ.”

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  14. Moroni 10:32

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    God’s invitations are full of love and possibility because Jesus Christ is “the way, the truth, and the life.” To those who feel burdened, He invites, “Come unto me,” and to those who come to Him, He promises, “I will give you rest.” “Come unto Christ, and be perfected in him, … love God with all your might, mind and strength, then is his grace sufficient for you, that by his grace ye may be perfect in Christ.”

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  15. 2 Nephi 31:20

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    With compassion, our Savior encourages and promises we can “press forward with a steadfastness in Christ, having a perfect brightness of hope, and a love of God and of all men.” The doctrine of Christ, our Savior’s Atonement, and our whole-souled following of His covenant path can help us know His truths and make us free.

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  16. John 8:32

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    With compassion, our Savior encourages and promises we can “press forward with a steadfastness in Christ, having a perfect brightness of hope, and a love of God and of all men.” The doctrine of Christ, our Savior’s Atonement, and our whole-souled following of His covenant path can help us know His truths and make us free.

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Shared scripture with foundational texts

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  1. Jesus the Christ

    Chapter 26: Our Lord’s Ministry in Perea and Judea

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    • Deuteronomy 6:5

      In this talk:
      Open paragraph (1)
      In Jesus the Christ:
      Open paragraph (c)

      This lawyer, standing up among the people who had gathered to hear Jesus, asked: “Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?”b Jesus replied by a counter question, in which was plainly intimated that if this man, who was professedly learned in the law, had read and studied properly, he should know without asking what he ought to do.

    • Luke 10:27

      In this talk:
      Open paragraph (1)
      In Jesus the Christ:
      Open paragraph (c)

      This lawyer, standing up among the people who had gathered to hear Jesus, asked: “Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?”b Jesus replied by a counter question, in which was plainly intimated that if this man, who was professedly learned in the law, had read and studied properly, he should know without asking what he ought to do.

  2. Jesus the Christ

    Chapter 18: As One Having Authority

    1 shared verse

  3. Jesus the Christ

    Chapter 22: A Period of Darkening Opposition

    1 shared verse

  4. Jesus the Christ

    Chapter 31: The Close of Our Lord’s Public Ministry

    1 shared verse

  5. Jesus the Christ

    Chapter 9: The Boy of Nazareth

    1 shared verse

    • John 8:32

      In this talk:
      Open paragraph (2)
      In Jesus the Christ:
      Open paragraph (g)

      Our knowledge of Jewish life in that age justifies the inference that the Boy was well taught in the law and the scriptures, for such was the rule.

  6. The Articles of Faith

    Article 1

    1 shared verse

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