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Those of us (Mormons) who are struggling with our church relationship — we are so not alone. Stumbled on this today:
http://wulfila.nfshost.com/blog/?p=2976 It’s worth the read……so many parallels. It’s uncanny.
Sure thing. Why do people bother to aggregate churches? One little home church affiliated with a denomination is bad enough in comparison to an itinerant preacher/healer with a bunch of voluntarily poor groupies. Hmm, was I just talking about Jesus or Saint Francesco? Either way, that’s a higher religion than the brick, mortar, and org. chart type. It’s very true, we are far from being alone. Some of us start out having problems with church history, for example, and after a long time ( at least for me ) end up embracing it.
Alan over at Pure Mormonism has a very insightful article on General Conference and how things have changed:
http://puremormonism.blogspot.com/ Different strokes….
Bruce, thanks for sharing that blog site. Boy, did I relate to it. That was so right on for me. This is not the same church I knew growing up. When I was 8 years old, I sat up stairs close to the choir in the tabernacle in Salt Lake City during a general conference. (btw, I was baptized in the basement of the tabernacle on my eighth birthday). Just before David O”McKay (the prophet at the time) got up to speak we sang, “We thank thee o God for a prophet.” The spirit was so strong and I had tears in my eyes feeling so happy that we had a living prophet to guide us in these latter days. I loved Jesus and had so much faith and believed in the church. David O Mckay signed my mission call to Austria. I had cassette tapes of talks by apostles, Hugh B. Brown, LeGrand Richards, and Paul Dunn. It just does not seem the same to me anymore and I don’t know what happened. Some would tell me, the problem is with me, but I don’t think so becuse people always told me how much they felt the spirit when I taught classes in church. I sometimes feel like members are like the people who pretended to see the emporers fine clothes when he had none on. I feel like screaming what the little boy says in the story, “But he doesn’t have any clothes on.” I sat down during conference this afternoon and fell asleep. I woke up in time for Pres. Monson’s ending talk and it was so generic. I felt like it was just words that did not reach past the tv. Brother Utodorf talk was the only one that spoke with real power to me today.
In my early years in the church, I often attended General Conference. Once I went four times in succession. Today I would not drive those 800 miles. I did love Brother Uchtdorf’s talk. It gives me hope for loving others, regarding of their diversity. Uchtdorf offers a fresh approach to the old old story, of Jesus and His love. My heart resonates to the same.
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