Tuesday, August 9, 2016

Study notes: The Contrite Spirit, by the Hafens


































PAGE
xv    Definition:  Contrite Spirit
8      Why grace is not free– needs to satisfy the nature of human growth
        not that grace won’t help us grow (without our complete engagement), but it can’t
9      Growth requires that we bear “hard things”
10    Recently, there seems to have been an increase infusion of teachings about the Savior’s
        atonement into LDS understanding.  Also p.24 
13    Life is a customized curriculum suited for each individual, to help us (individually) learn what
        God sent us here to learn
19-20    Temple story of Adam and Eve is the story of receiving and engaging the Atonement,
        temple ordinances are for the development of the soul
22-23    Agnes Caldwell story      Severe mercy   p.52
27    Definition: Atonement
29     Four gifts in the Atonement
        1) Resurrection
        2) He redeemed us
        3) He strengthens us
        4) He perfects us
36    Sources of our need for strengthening: Weaknesses, Mistakes, Harm from others, Adversity
44    His empathy.  Our extremities–the price we paid to know Him
47    Charity as a bestowed gift. Comes from outside us.
50    How dear a price we may pay for the gift of charity
54-61    Melchizedek Priesthood ordinances and principles, part of an ascending pattern (mostly
        temple related)
        p. 56 sacrifice and consecration   p. 58 hope and charity
73-74    Definition: the Rest of the Lord
96-111   Chapter 11 Waiting upon the LORD–important.
128-141 Chapter 13 Diversion to give us a history of changes in US cultural expectations and laws
--  Higher priesthood, higher principles:
        about marriage and children
145  The natural order of marriage--not dependence or independence, but interdependence
147-148    Covenantal, sacrifice based marriage–the triangle
151  Elijah’s sealing power includes reconciliation
152- Chapter 15  Compare our Lewis nFamily Creed
        p 160 multigenerational Church--multigenerational families of faith   Elder Maxwell’s original
        statement
152  Interpretation of  2 Ne 31–Enduring to the end means cultivating the higher (Melchizedek
        Priesthood) principles of Hope, Charity, and feasting upon the word of Christ
156  Missionary goal: temple
        p.162 convert internalizing MP culture
180- Chapter 17 The reach of the sealing power??
199  Being a Savior on Mt Zion may be more than doing temple ordinances.  How one responds to
        life’s adversities.  Not passing on pain.
200  Transitional figures–They change patterns in family history, absorb rather than pass on, a current
        of harm.  Isaiah 58:12  
        p 203 another layer of meaning to the phrase “redeeming the dead”
205  Definition: Sacrifice
        Definition: Consecration
216  Difference between being active in the Church and being a consecrated disciple
        Is the first AP and the second MP?
222  Definition: Justification
223  Definition: Sanctification
231  How the temple helps
246  Great motivator– the yearning to be “at one” with those we love.

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