The Way We Live
Scriptures
"Why Marriage, Why Family" -
Elder Christofferson
Marriage
The Family: A Proclamation to the World
100
Psalms 127:3 ...children are an ______ of the Lord
heritage
100
According to Dietrich Bonhoeffer, "it is _____ , and not merely your love for each other, that joins you together in the sight of God and man. … So love comes from you, but _____ from above, from God
marriage
100
In our Heavenly Father’s plan of happiness, a man and a woman can be ______ to one another for time and all eternity.
Sealed
100
Happiness in family life is most likely to be achieved when founded upon the teachings of ______
The Lord Jesus Christ
200
D&C 131:1-4 In the celestial glory there are three heavens or degrees. And in order to obtain the highest degree of celestial glory, a man must enter into this.
order of the priesthood [meaning the new and everlasting covenant of marriage]
200
The Fall of Adam and Eve created the conditions needed for our physical birth and for mortal experience and learning outside the presence of God. What are these conditions?
- With the Fall came an awareness of good and evil - and the God-given power to choose - the Fall brought about physical death needed to make our time in mortality temporary so that we would not live forever in our sins.
200
After receiving the sealing ordinance and making sacred covenants in the temple, what must a couple do in order to receive the blessings of eternal marriage and exaltation.
Continue in faithfulness.
200
Successful marriages and families are established and maintained on what principles? Name three.
faith, prayer, repentance, forgiveness, respect, love, compassion, work, and wholesome recreational activities.
300
Alma 24:14, Alma 42:8, Alma 12:25 There came a time in the premortal existence of spirits when, in furtherance of His desire that we “could have a privilege to advance like himself,” our Heavenly Father prepared an enabling plan. In the scriptures it is given various names. What are these? 100 points each.
“the plan of salvation” “the great plan of happiness” “the plan of redemption”
300
1) How are we redeemed from the Fall of Adam and Eve? 2) On what condition does the Atonement redeem us?
1) A Redeemer, the Only Begotten Son of God, Jesus Christ, suffered and died to atone for Adam and Eve’s transgression, thereby providing resurrection and immortality for all. 2) And since none of us will have been perfectly and consistently obedient to the gospel law, His Atonement also redeems us from our own sins on condition of repentance.
300
"Remember that marriage, in its truest sense, is a partnership of equals..." What does a partnership of equals involve?
Neither person exercising dominion over the other, but with each encouraging, comforting, and helping the other.
300
Marriage between a man and a woman is ________ of God and the family is _________ to the Creator’s plan for the eternal destiny of His children.
ordained, central
400
D&C 93:(36-)40 He also ordained that parents should establish families and rear their children in _____ and _____.
light, truth
400
Lucifer fights to discourage marriage and the formation of families, and where marriages and families are formed, he does what he can to disrupt them. What are some way he attacks them?
- He attacks everything that is sacred about human sexuality, tearing it from the context of marriage with a seemingly infinite array of immoral thoughts and acts - He seeks to convince men and women that marriage and family priorities can be ignored or abandoned, or at least made subservient to careers, other achievements, and the quest for self-fulfillment and individual autonomy - Certainly the adversary is pleased when parents neglect to teach and train their children to have faith in Christ and be spiritually born again.
400
Group: Why should we get married and have children?
Open
400
ALL HUMAN BEINGS—male and female—are created in the image of God. Each is a beloved spirit son or daughter of heavenly parents, and, as such, each has a divine nature and destiny. _____ is an essential characteristic of individual premortal, mortal, and eternal identity and purpose.
Gender
500
Abraham 3:(24-)26 And they who keep their first estate shall be added upon; and they who keep not their first estate shall not have glory in the same kingdom with those who keep their first estate; and they who keep their second estate shall have glory added upon their heads for ever and ever. What are the first and second estates?
Premortal and Mortal life
500
What four things are needed for the success of His divine plan? (125 points each - 500 for all 4.)
- First was the Creation of the earth as our dwelling place. - Second is the condition of mortality. - Third is redemption from the Fall. - Fourth, and finally, is the setting for our physical birth and subsequent spiritual rebirth into the kingdom of God.
500
Team: Why should marriage be between a man and a woman?
Open
500
What date/year was the proclamation read by President Gordon B. Hinckley as part of his message at the General Relief Society Meeting held in Salt Lake City, Utah.
September 23, 1995
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