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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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