Lesson 28: Come unto Christ
1. Why do you study the Book of Mormon?
2. Jeffrey R. Holland, “Safety for
the Soul,” Ensign, Nov. 2009, 88–90.
3. “A
Christ-Centered Life,” chapter 24 in TPC-Ezra Taft
Benson (2014), 297–306.
5. What do these verses teach us to do to come unto
Christ?
6. “When we are consistently praying morning and night,
studying our scriptures daily, having weekly family home evening,
and attending the temple regularly, we are actively responding to His
invitation to ‘come unto Him’” (Richard G. Scott, ”Ensign
Nov. 2014, 94).
7. “I bear my witness that we can come unto Christ and be
perfected in Him by our worthy participation in the sacred ordinances appointed
by God and instituted from before the foundation of the world” (Dennis B.
Neuenschwander, “Ordinances
and Covenants,” Ensign, Aug. 2001, 26).
8. Moroni 10:32–33 -Look for how the words “if” and “then”
are used.
9. Alma 5:33–35.
10. “The Lord’s grace, unlocked by the Atonement, can
perfect our imperfections. ‘By his grace ye may be perfect in Christ.’ (Moroni 10:32.) While much of the perfection process involves a
cleansing from the contamination of sin and bitterness, there is an additional,
affirmative dimension through which we acquire a Christlike nature, becoming
perfect even as the Father and Son are perfect. …“The Savior’s victory can
compensate not only for our sins but also for our inadequacies; not only for
our deliberate mistakes but also for our sins committed in ignorance, our
errors of judgment, and our unavoidable imperfections. Our ultimate aspiration
is more than being forgiven of sin—we seek to become holy, endowed
affirmatively with Christlike attributes, at one with him, like him. Divine
grace is the only source that can finally fulfill that aspiration, after all we
can do” (Bruce C. Hafen, The Broken Heart [1989], 16, 20).
11. Moroni 7:18–26 - What does it mean to be the children of
Christ?
12. Jesus Christ
also “becomes our Father, in the sense in which this term is used in the
scriptures, because he offers us life, eternal life, through the atonement
which he made for us. ( Mosiah 5:7.)
… We become the children, sons and daughters of Jesus Christ, through our
covenants of obedience to him” [Joseph Fielding Smith, Doctrines of
Salvation, 1:29].)
13. Moroni 7:21–26- What has the
Lord given us to help us to “lay hold upon every good thing?”
14. Moroni 10:3-5.
16. I testify that one cannot come to full faith in this
latter-day work—and thereby find the fullest measure of peace and comfort in
these, our times—until he or she embraces the divinity of the Book of Mormon
and the Lord Jesus Christ, of whom it
testifies. If anyone is
foolish enough or misled enough to reject 531 pages of a heretofore unknown text
teeming with literary and Semitic complexity without honestly attempting to
account for the origin of those pages—especially without accounting for their
powerful witness of Jesus Christ and the profound spiritual impact that witness
has had on what is now tens of millions of readers—if that is the case, then
such a person, elect or otherwise, has been deceived; and if he or she leaves
this Church, it must be done by crawling over or under or around the Book of Mormon to make that exit.
17. I ask that my testimony of the Book of Mormon and all that it implies, given today under my
own oath and office, be recorded by men on earth and angels in heaven. I hope I
have a few years left in my “last days,” but whether I do or do not, I want it
absolutely clear when I stand before the judgment bar of God that I declared to
the world, in the most straightforward language I could summon, that the Book
of Mormon is true, that it came forth the way Joseph said it came forth and was
given to bring happiness and hope to the faithful in the travail of the latter
days. (Holland, Ensign, Nov. 2009)
