| Re: Is Home Teaching a Calling? [message #1719 is a reply to message #1713] |
Sun, 23 December 2012 16:30   |
FreddyV
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The more I learn about the priesthood, the more I feel I have never understood it. D&C 20:47 for example describes the priest's duty. Yet a priest is an office in the priesthood. I believe we too often confuse office in the church with priesthood. I think Alma 13 and D&C 76 better describe what it means to receive the priesthood.
So, as for a calling or duty? If we receive the true priesthood, I believe we will be able to follow the Spirit and visit, teach, heal, bless, and gather the Saints to Zion. I believe all of these may be considered as callings, callings we received prior to the foundation of this earth. I have always understood a calling as something we are set apart to do. However, I think that we have been called and set apart before the foundation of this earth to do many things in the Lord's service.
A duty of church office seems less celestial, more telestial. Those are my random thoughts. I'd love to hear what others may provide.
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