Hope in Christ - Ballard
Waiting upon the Lord implies continued _____________and ____________ toward Him. Waiting upon the Lord does not imply biding one’s time. You should never feel like you are in a waiting room.
A. Faith and Love
B. Obedience and Spiritual Progress
C. Hope and Patience
B. Obedience and Spiritual Progress
Sister Linda Burton said, “Tonight I would like to share three principles of the Atonement that, if written in our hearts, will increase our faith in Jesus Christ. It is my hope that understanding these principles will bless each of us, whether we are new to the Church or lifelong members. Name ONE of these 3 principles.
Principle 1: “All that is unfair about life can be made right through the Atonement of Jesus Christ.”
Principle 2: There is power in the Atonement to enable us to overcome the natural man or woman and become true disciples of Jesus Christ.
Principle 3: The Atonement is the greatest evidence we have of the Father’s love for His children.
Justification and sanctification are the fruit of the Atonement’s “infinite virtue,” which virtue we also refer to as ______ or ______.
A. Faith and repentance
B. Mercy or grace
C. Love and forgiveness
B. Mercy or grace
The Savior’s ___________ cannot become commonplace in our teaching, in our conversation, or in our hearts. It is sacred and holy, for it was through this “great and last sacrifice” that Jesus the Christ brought “salvation to all those who shall believe on his name.”
Atonement
Fill in the missing phrase:
For many years, we have talked about “young single adults,” “single adults,” and “adults.” Those designations can be administratively helpful at times but can inadvertently change how we perceive others.
Is there a way to avoid this human tendency that can separate us from one another? President Nelson asked that we refer to ourselves as _________________.
Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Sister Burton gave an analogy about helping people understand the atonement. She talked about a pit and a ladder. What is the analogy?
We all sin. Christ gives us a ladder to get out of the pit, but also lowers the ladder and goes down with us.
Who said the following: “Everyone in the Church who is on the straight and narrow path, who is striving and struggling and desiring to do what is right, though far from perfect in this life; if he passes out of this life while he’s on the straight and narrow, he’s going to go on to eternal reward in his Father’s kingdom.
A. D. Todd Christopherson
B. Bruce R McConkie
C. Russell M. Nelson
B. Bruce R McConkie
Who was Jesus talking to when he shared the story of the creditor which had two debtors: … one owed five hundred pence, … the other fifty.
A. Peter
B. Simon
C. Martha
B. Simon
Are we like Simon? Are we confident and comfortable in our good deeds, trusting in our own righteousness? Are we perhaps a little impatient with those who are not living up to our standards? Are we on autopilot, going through the motions, attending our meetings, yawning through Gospel Doctrine class, and perhaps checking our cell phones during sacrament service?
Or are we like this woman, who thought she was completely and hopelessly lost because of sin?
Do we love much?
Do we understand our indebtedness to Heavenly Father and plead with all our souls for the grace of God?
When we kneel to pray, is it to replay the greatest hits of our own righteousness, or is it to confess our faults, plead for God’s mercy, and shed tears of gratitude for the amazing plan of redemption?
Is the following statement true or false: President Dallin H. Oaks explained that some of the circumstances “of mortality will be set right in the Millennium, which is the time for fulfilling all that is incomplete in the great plan of happiness for all of our Father’s worthy children.”
True
In helping people understand about their worth, President Uchtdorf gave an example of what?
A. A $20 bill
B. A fancy airplane
C. A smart child.
A. A $20 bill
Complete the sentence: “We know that it is by grace that we are saved, after _________.
All we can do
(2 Ne. 25:23)
A powerful expression of love is what the scriptures often call the grace of God. How would you define grace?
Divine help or strength from Christ
Brothers and sisters, more than what percent of people in the Church today are widowed, divorced, or not yet married.
A. 20 percent
B. 50 percent
C. 70 percent
B. 50 percent
In the book of ___________we find a scripture that is very dear to my heart. _________ lived in a difficult time and place, but the Lord allowed him to foresee “a time of hope during the latter-day gathering of Israel”—our day. __________ prophesied:
“After those days, saith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people. …
“… They shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”
A. Joshua
B. Isaiah
C. Jeremiah
C. Jeremiah
Sanctification is best described as a _________ process.
(Ongoing/lifelong)
President Uchtdorf said that grace unlocks and opens what?
A. The gates and windows of heaven
B. The power of prayer
C. A testimony
Who said the following quote: “In the Lord’s own way and time, no blessing will be withheld from His faithful Saints. The Lord will judge and reward each individual according to heartfelt desire as well as deed.”
A. Russell M Nelson
B. M. Russell Ballard
C. Jeffrey R. Holland
A. Russell M Nelson
As a new Relief Society presidency, we have sought the Lord earnestly to know what essential things He would have us put in our Relief Society handcart to continue moving His work forward. We have felt that Heavenly Father would first have us help His beloved daughters understand what?
A. The doctrine of the Atonement of Jesus Christ
B. That we are His Children.
C. That we need to repent.
A. The doctrine of the Atonement of Jesus Christ
True or False: To be classed among the truly penitent, random acts of obedience will not be adequate. We must properly enter into the covenants and persist in keeping them to the point that our expectation of salvation is affirmed by the Holy Spirit of Promise (see D&C 132:7, 19).
True
True or False: Grace only applies after we have done all we can.
False
The prophet Nephi made an important contribution to our understanding of God’s grace when he declared, “We labor diligently … to persuade our children, and also our brethren, to believe in Christ, and to be reconciled to God; for we know that it is by grace that we are saved, after all we can do.”
However, I wonder if sometimes we misinterpret the phrase “after all we can do.” We must understand that “after” does not equal “because.”
We are not saved “because” of all that we can do. Have any of us done all that we can do? Does God wait until we’ve expended every effort before He will intervene in our lives with His saving grace?