Fellowshipping Members
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| Come Back |
| In this letter from the First Presidency, the Church invites less active
members to come back into full fellowship. |
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| Fellowshipping
Members |
| "Latter-day Saints consider themselves brothers and sisters (see Brotherhood and Sisterhood)
responsible to help one another. Their informal acts of friendship and kindness foster
congeniality within the Church and assist new members as they move into its social
context. In addition, the Church has developed some practices specifically intended to
help integrate new members." Encyclopedia of Mormonism |
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| Home Teaching |
| "The home teaching program is a response to modern revelation commissioning those ordained to the
priesthood to 'teach, expound, exhort, baptize, and watch over the church…and visit
the house of each member, and exhort them to pray vocally and in secret and attend to all
family duties,…to watch over the church always, and be with and strengthen them; and
see that there is no iniquity in the church, neither hardness with each other, neither
lying, backbiting, nor evil speaking' [D&C 20:42-54]."
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| Visiting Teaching |
| "Visiting teaching is an organized means whereby the women of the
Church receive regular instructional and compassionate service visits—usually by
personal contact in the home—from other female members of the Church. The purpose is
to promote sisterhood, present inspirational messages, and note instances of need wherein
the temporal and spiritual resources of the Church might be helpful."
Encyclopedia of Mormonism |
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| To the Home
Teachers of the Church |
| At April 1987 General Conference, President Ezra Taft Benson instructs the priesthood
brethren on how to become effective home teachers. |
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| Home
Teaching--A Divine Service |
| At October 1997 General Conference, President Thomas S.
Monson discusses the importance of home teaching. |
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| Some Thoughts on Temples,
Retention of Converts, and Missionary Service |
| At October 1997 General Conference, President Gordon B.
Hinckley discusses the importance of fellowshipping members and other topics. |
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| Friendship: A Gospel Principle |
| At April 1999
General Conference, Elder Marlin K. Jensen explains the importance of friendship. |
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| Converts and Young Men |
| At April 1997 General Conference, President Gordon B.
Hinckley discusses the importance of strengthening new converts. |
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| "A Teacher Come From God" |
| At April 1998 General Conference, Elder Jeffrey R. Holland
explains the importance of teaching and nourishing members in the Lord's way. |
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| Fellowshipping |
| At April 1999 General Conference,
Elder Ned B. Roueché discusses the importance of nourishing someone in the good word of
God. |
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| Welcome Home |
| At April 1999
General Conference, Bishop Keith B. McMullin explains how Christ can help someone return
to the fold. |
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| Priesthood and the Home |
| At April 1999 General Conference,
Elder D. Lee Tobler discusses the importance of helping every family enjoy the benefits of
the Melchizedek Priesthood. |
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| (See Daily Living home page; Activity in the Church home page) |
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