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From the Mormon:crazy: newsroom:https://www.mormonnewsroom.org/article/church-name-alignment ” class=”bbcode_url”> https://www.mormonnewsroom.org/article/church-name-alignment Quote:The Church’s official website will become ChurchofJesusChrist.org. This change is effective today, March 5, 2019, when the domain name ChurchofJesusChrist.org begins pointing to the LDS.org home page. In the coming months, the ChurchofJesusChrist.org domain name will replace what were the following:
LDS.org (ChurchofJesusChrist.org)
- MormonNewsroom.org (Newsroom.ChurchofJesusChrist.org
Eventually, Mormon.org will be incorporated into the new domain as well. However, because its primary audience is those outside the Church, merging it with the Church member-focused ChurchofJesusChrist.org will take more time.
Work is underway to unify and restructure all these websites into a new, more cohesive and personalized experience under the ChurchofJesusChrist.org domain. Until that time, Mormon.org will change to ComeuntoChrist.org.
Super, duper serious about the branding/name change. I think we all saw this coming, but now it’s official.
Thanks for the warning. We had stake conference this past weekend, so this Sunday is F&TM and I’m sure I’ll hear about this and how inspired our prophet is.
In truth if focusing more on Jesus Christ in the name of the church helps members to focus more on Jesus Christ and helps non-members understand what we’re really supposed to be about, I’m all for it. I haven’t seen the fruits of this yet, but I’ll be patient.
DarkJedi wrote:
In truth if focusing more on Jesus Christ in the name of the church helps members to focus more on Jesus Christ and helps non-members understand what we’re really supposed to be about, I’m all for it. I haven’t seen the fruits of this yet, but I’ll be patient.
Yeah, if it moves people’s testimonies more towards Christ then it can’t be a bad thing. I think there are more efficient ways to go about it, say by addressing the issue directly, head on in a general conference talk. I’m thinking the title of the talk could be something like, “The Church, Temples, Prophets, Apostles, and Other Modern-day Idols”
:angel: :angel: But going back to D&C 107. Now that we’re in the process of changing to official names to be more focused on Christ does this mean we’ll start calling the MP by the name the Lord gave it?
The Holy Priesthood, after the Order of the Son of God. I mean… it fits right in with the plan to make labels unnecessarily long and cumbersome and we get to name drop Jesus a lot more than we currently do, which also fits nicely within the current plan.
(tongue in cheek)
I’m of the oppinion that changing the website url from LDS.org to ChurchofJesusChrist.org is just silly. It’s not like we’re dropping the ‘of Latter Day Saints’ from the official name of the church, so it should still be a okay thing to use the obviously better URL. We live in a time of many URL shorteners, and even sites like Youtube now offer shorter links than the full URL for when you want to more easily pass along a video. Put simply, what sort of typical internet user would rather type ChurchofJesusChrist.org rather than LDS.org I mean that’s a 20 letter long url as opposed to 3 letters. There’s so much more room for errors/typos in that. Not to mention that it will just take much more time to type out. That’s got to be one of the longest website URLs I’ve ever seen.
:thumbdown: The change of Mormon.org to ComeUntoChrist.org isn’t as bad length wise. And now it seems they’ve totally redone what that site is about. It used to be a meet the members sorta thing, but it’s extremely different now. It would have made just as much sense to say that Mormon.org was discontinued and that a new site was to be introduced as ComeUntoChrist.org since they’re totally different in appearance. Either way I don’t care much about the second site change, it’s the awful lengthening of the first that I think was a poor decision functionality wise.
:shifty: This still feels like a made up crisis to me. Even to my most orthodox friends and family this feels like farce. Even they make jokes constantly about “another victory for satan” when someone says “Mormon.” Can’t wait to have everything change back in a few years. Hope the PR department keeps paying on the old domain names.
🙄 😳 Does this mean we all have to turn into snowflakes every time we get called “Mormons”? SamBee wrote:
Does this mean we all have to turn into snowflakes every time we get called “Mormons”?
No, I think we have to cast out Satan.
😈 Since we all know my opinion I will spare you the novel length diatribe in my head. My short answer: “By their fruits ye shall know them.”
That’s all.
mom3 wrote:
Since we all know my opinion I will spare you the novel length diatribe in my head.My short answer: “By their fruits ye shall know them.”
That’s all.
I had a similar thought, though it’s much more diatriby. If I had to guess (and I don’t have to, I like to) I’d say your average ward breakdown is:
60% don’t care at all
35% will poke fun at the change
5% will police others, hold others to the change, provide fuel for the 35%
All this does is help me more easily determine who is in which camp so I can know who to spend more time with.
🙂 The only thing is that when giving a talk or lesson we’ve all got to pretend to be in the 5%. Now, if you make unsolicited comments about adhering to the correct name(s) or police usage when you don’t feel intimidated to do so… I’ll probably find someone else to trade baseball cards with in the hallway during SS.
And if you ask me to give a talk about the name change, be warned… I will not pretend.
😈 Quote:
And if you ask me to give a talk about the name change, be warned… I will not pretend.Right there with you brother.
mom3 wrote:
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And if you ask me to give a talk about the name change, be warned… I will not pretend.Right there with you brother.
I wouldn’t pretend either, but it would be a very short talk. “I believe we are being asked to focus on the name of the church because we are being asked to focus on Jesus Christ. In the name of Jesus Christ, amen.”
Quote:“I believe we are being asked to focus on the name of the church because we are being asked to focus on Jesus Christ. In the name of Jesus Christ, amen.”
I was at a Stake training last night and my SP did exactly that.
I walked in the door a half hour after the meeting started. My husband was all “You’re home early.” I said yeah, it was a brief, to the point meeting. A hymn, a spiritual thought, two instructions. Then the SP in a 2 min “Jesus is the Reason for All Seasons” over view. Then, a closing prayer.
I’ve considered myself a Christian throughout my LDS membership and I think my main dilemma is how LDS beliefs square with my Christianity, i.e. are they compatible, is Mormonism a fake Christianity, is temple worship Christian…? I do think LDS are Christians although we have a lot of cultural baggage and some dubious history. Funnily enough, there are certain things we do which I wish other churches had kept.
But what do we call our denomination? The Church of Jesus Christ is shared by a number of unrelated org.s as are terms like Church of Christ etc. The full church name is a real mouthful and that’s the primary reason why we use LDS, Mormon etc. I don’t think Mormon is a term of abuse but a nickname which has been used both positively and negatively. I can think of worse things to be called.
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