Ahab Posted February 27, 2020 Posted February 27, 2020 28 minutes ago, RichYoungRuler said: Have you seen this one? Yes, that was in 2016. 4 years ago. We have made a lot of improvements since then.
Bernard Gui Posted February 27, 2020 Posted February 27, 2020 1 hour ago, RichYoungRuler said: At any moment during mortality, anyone can choose to believe upon Jesus Christ and immediately receive His free gift of eternal perfection. Is that an act of obedience? Can the gift be withdrawn for any reason? What becomes of those who never hear the Gospel (goodness)?
Ahab Posted February 28, 2020 Posted February 28, 2020 20 hours ago, RichYoungRuler said: Have you seen this one? If you're still lurking around and will read this post I just want you to know I am thankful that you shared your message with us here on this board. We shouldn't obey our Lord's commands because we want to get something from him. Or at least not that reason alone. We should obey his commandments because we love him and want to be like him and to be around him as much as we can be, both now and in the future. So thank you again for sharing that message. 1
Tacenda Posted March 6, 2020 Posted March 6, 2020 (edited) Justin Bieber testifies of Jesus, I think this is what some mean when they say they have a personal relationship with Jesus. Edited March 6, 2020 by Tacenda
Bernard Gui Posted March 6, 2020 Posted March 6, 2020 (edited) Duplicate Edited March 6, 2020 by Bernard Gui
Bernard Gui Posted March 6, 2020 Posted March 6, 2020 (edited) 3 hours ago, Tacenda said: Justin Bieber testifies of Jesus, I think this is what some mean when they say they have a personal relationship with Jesus. Tonight I asked Sister Gui what she thought it means to have a personal relationship with Jesus. She said, “It’s personal.” Edited March 6, 2020 by Bernard Gui 1
Tacenda Posted March 6, 2020 Posted March 6, 2020 5 hours ago, Bernard Gui said: Tonight I asked Sister Gui what she thought it means to have a personal relationship with Jesus. She said, “It’s personal.” That's a great way too, personal, meaning a relationship we have here on earth with loved ones, or "personal" that we don't have to yell it to the world. That would probably be me as well. I wonder what we're supposed to do, serious question, because I'm not one to share on FB quotes or meme's when people put them out in showing my relationship with Jesus, have you seen those? I'm in the camp of letting each individual choose their own faith. But I guess it's a testimony meeting for Bieber and West here in this video. I guess it may help some out there that are more secular that it's okay to let it be known. I'm super tired so I know I'm not making much sense, hope you understand what I'm trying to say.
Bernard Gui Posted March 6, 2020 Posted March 6, 2020 1 hour ago, Tacenda said: That's a great way too, personal, meaning a relationship we have here on earth with loved ones, or "personal" that we don't have to yell it to the world. That would probably be me as well. I wonder what we're supposed to do, serious question, because I'm not one to share on FB quotes or meme's when people put them out in showing my relationship with Jesus, have you seen those? I'm in the camp of letting each individual choose their own faith. But I guess it's a testimony meeting for Bieber and West here in this video. I guess it may help some out there that are more secular that it's okay to let it be known. I'm super tired so I know I'm not making much sense, hope you understand what I'm trying to say. I do. Thanks.
Tacenda Posted March 7, 2020 Posted March 7, 2020 I wonder if Justin will affect many of his fans with belief in Jesus, or help them have a renewed faith.
Jeanne Posted March 7, 2020 Posted March 7, 2020 What I find most interesting about Justin's video is that he mentioned Jesus and the Savior more times than I have ever heard in 4 hours of church. I admire that he is changing his life...it radiates in him. Wish him and his wife the best..he was getting ready to go down even further to a pit and he would have took others with him. Perhaps he can now take others with him to a different path.
Islander Posted March 8, 2020 Posted March 8, 2020 On 2/13/2020 at 5:00 PM, Anonymous Mormon said: I am looking for advice on how to improve my relationship with and testimony of Jesus Christ. I would like to come to know Christ in such that I could powerfully testify that He lives and that his Atonement can carry us through tough times. I would like to increase my faith in him. Although not commonly phrased this way in the church culture, I would like to have a 'Personal Relationship with Jesus Christ.' Also, I have a really hard time in feeling the power of the Atonement beyond just being grateful I am forgiven. We are given all kinds of promises that Christ can carry us in times of need and although I feel God's love and the Holy Ghost guide me in times of need, I am not sure how to know/feel Christ or the Atonement is at the center of this. So my question is two fold: 1) What have others done to form a more personal relationship with the Savior? How have you come to know him in your life? 2) How have others successfully applied the atonement of Christ to carry them through hard times? How do you feel Christ and the Atonement (beyond just knowing that you are forgiven) working in your life? Note: I am looking for sincere answers from anyone who feels Christ in their life, regardless of their feelings towards or activity or membership in the church (Christ is the Lord of all after all). However, I am not interested in this thread devolving into negativity about the church being not true or Christ being not real - if this is your belief, I'd prefer to now have it clog up the thread and you can please start your own thread on that topic. Thanks to all in advance! I hope to learn a lot from the conversation. In order to be/feel closer to Christ we have recognize who, what and why we seek Him, first and foremost. As we internalize these elements and recognize our desperate situation, discard our pride and preconceived ideas and notions of who we are, and bend out will to His. There are many scriptures that point to this process. I have chosen but a few to illustrate the process. I hope it helps. John 1:3 God created everything through him, and nothing was created except through him. Jeremiah 10:23 I know, O LORD, that the way of man is not in himself, that it is not in man who walks to direct his steps. Philippians 4:13 I can do all things through him who strengthens me. Deuteronomy 31:8 It is the LORD who goes before you. He will be with you; he will not leave you or forsake you. Do not fear or be dismayed. Genesis 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. Matthew 4:4 But he answered, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’ Galatians 6:3 For if anyone thinks he is something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself. Philippians 2:13 for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure. Helaman 12:7 “O how great is the nothingness of the children of men; yea, even they are bless than the dust of the earth. My favorite. To be closer to Christ we most come onto Him, live and love like Him: Moroni 7: 43 And again, behold I say unto you that he cannot have faith and hope, save he shall be meek, and lowly of heart. 44 If so, his faith and hope is vain, for none is acceptable before God, save the meek and lowly in heart; and if a man be meek and lowly in heart, and confesses by the power of the Holy Ghost that Jesus is the Christ, he must needs have charity; for if he have not charity he is nothing; wherefore he must needs have charity. 45 And charity suffereth long, and is kind, and envieth not, and is not puffed up, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil, and rejoiceth not in iniquity but rejoiceth in the truth, beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. 46 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, if ye have not charity, ye are nothing, for charity never faileth. Wherefore, cleave unto charity, which is the greatest of all, for all things must fail— 47 But charity is the pure love of Christ, and it endureth cforever; and whoso is found possessed of it at the last day, it shall be well with him. 48 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, pray unto the Father with all the energy of heart, that ye may be filled with this love, which he hath bestowed upon all who are true followers of his Son, Jesus Christ; that ye may become the sons of God; that when he shall appear we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is; that we may have this hope; that we may be purified even as he is pure. Amen.
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