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  • May 26, 2015 at 3:44 am #299790
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    I lived in a ward once that tried to have two GD classes: one for the orthodox and one for the heterodox. It was great for about two months, then it started to divide the ward worse than previously – mostly because the heterodox members started belittling and being condescending toward the orthodox members. It didn’t soften the tone of GD and help build Zion; rather, it just created two classes that were more extreme than the former class and caused even further division.

    I learned a great lesson from that experience. Respecting differences of opinion together, in a diverse setting, is the ideal – not isolating each different opinion.

    May 26, 2015 at 12:17 pm #299791
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    Old-Timer wrote:

    I lived in a ward once that tried to have two GD classes: one for the orthodox and one for the heterodox. It was great for about two months, then it started to divide the ward worse than previously – mostly because the heterodox members started belittling and being condescending toward the orthodox members. It didn’t soften the tone of GD and help build Zion; rather, it just created two classes that were more extreme than the former class and caused even further division.

    I learned a great lesson from that experience. Respecting differences of opinion together, in a diverse setting, is the ideal – not isolating each different opinion.


    Interesting. I worry that the ramping up of excommunication and those leaving that the church will lose a bit of a balance and become more TBM

    May 26, 2015 at 12:32 pm #299792
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    Ann wrote:

    Thanks, everyone. If I decide to pursue anything I’ll return and report. I’m feeling very restless. It might be because I haven’t been in 2nd and 3rd hour on a regular basis for a year now because of my calling. I don’t get to comment, or have the moderating influence of fellow members on my ideas. I’m a little too alone with my thoughts. I thought the essays would make more of an impression than they have, that there would be discussions going on all about me. Instead, all’s quiet here.

    I have been in 2nd and 3rd hour on a regular basis and could say the same. 😆

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