Can I help? Can you come next Sunday?" Within two years, sacrament meeting attendance in the district increased from 540 to 725-in a region where convert baptisms are infrequent. Are you OK? It's not the same for the rest of us when you can't come. They each took an assignment to contact one of those individuals that same day with this message: "We sure missed you today. At the end of Sunday meetings, the branch councils and missionaries together named the members and investigators who could have been there but didn't come.
My friend who served as mission president in France instituted a practice like this in one particular district. If we conformed our ways to God's ways, we'd list the names of the individual members who could have returned to the fold on that Sunday but didn't come. They store this number in a safe place for the quarterly report, and then we go home. In every sacrament meeting, for example, our clerks count the number of sheep who returned to the fold. Yet we frequently focus on the ninety and nine, leaving those who are lost to continue wandering from the Church. The Savior taught that good shepherds go after individual sheep that don't return to the fold. "If a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray?" ( Matt. In this article I will highlight five of the Savior's teachings that seem counterintuitive to the wisdom of men but that have the potential to help the Church and its Saints grow even stronger. When we encounter roadblocks in our efforts to build the kingdom, the reason often is that our solutions are grounded in the wisdom of men-which is foolishness to God (see 1 Cor. "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord" ( Isa. The solutions that our minds are prone to develop are often different from those the Lord would have us pursue. Many of the Savior's most profound teachings are counterintuitive. Christensen, "My Ways Are Not Your Ways," Ensign, Feb. "My Ways Are Not Your Ways" "My Ways Are Not Your Ways"Ĭlayton M.
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