2017 YSA Conference - "Survive: 5 Crucial Skills for Keeping Your Testimony Alive"
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This document outlines 5 crucial skills for keeping your testimony alive: 1. Don't panic when facing imperfections, have faith in the divinity of the work. 2. Get "upstream" by doing close reading, following sources, asking questions, and combining physical and spiritual evidence. 3. Build your own campfire by crafting your own calling and schedule to stay engaged, instead of outsourcing your testimony. 4. Re-orient yourself by focusing on doctrine, truth, and principles over culture, traditions, programs, positions, and policies. 5. Use your C.P.S. - Covenants, Principles, and Spirit - which leave indelible impressions and are
2017 YSA Conference - "Survive: 5 Crucial Skills for Keeping Your Testimony Alive"
- 1. SURVIVE5 CRUCIAL SKILLS FOR KEEPING YOUR TESTIMONY ALIVE BY BEN BERNARDS
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- 8. “Gone are the days when a student asked an honest question a n d a t e a c h e r responded, “Don’t worry about it!” Gone are the days when a s t u d e n t r a i s e d a sincere concern and a teacher bore his or her t e s t i m o n y a s a response intended to avoid the issue.” Elder M. Russell Ballard Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles An Evening with Elder M. Russell Ballard Address to CES Religious Educators • February 26, 2016 • Salt Lake Tabernacle
- 12. “…when you see imperfection, remember that the limitation is n o t i n t h e divinity of the work.” Elder Holland April 2013 GC #favorite #youhaveanarmy #wehaveaholland
- 14. 2.GET UPSTREAM
- 20. “close reading” “follow the sources” “ask questions” “don’t assume” “combine physical + spiritual evidence”
- 21. “It is our duty and calling, as ministers of the same salvation and Gospel, to gather every item of truth and reject every error. Whether a truth be found with professed infidels, or with the Universalists, or the Church of Rome, or the Methodists, the Church of England, the Presbyterians, the Baptists, the Quakers, the Shakers, or any other of the various and numerous different sects and parties, all of whom have more or less truth, it is the business of the Elders of this Church (Jesus, their Elder Brother, being at their head) to gather up all the truths in the world pertaining to life and salvation, to the Gospel we preach, … to the sciences, and to philosophy, wherever it may be found in every nation, kindred, tongue, and people and bring it to Zion” - Brigham Young, DBY, 248 #makebeardsgreatagain
- 25. 3. BUILD YOUR OWN CAMPFIRE
- 29. “The hardest part about c o m i n g h o m e f ro m a mission is going from being part of something so huge, feeling needed and wanted, being unified with a huge group and being so focused on something I knew was right, to feeling like just another face in the crowd, with no calling, being f o c u s e d o n p e r s o n a l pursuits rather than the cause of Christ, and not feeling unified with anyone or anything.” - anon.
- 30. “I’m worried that it will be easy for m e t o b e c o m e disengaged and lose my foothold. Not so much in t e r m s o f m y personal spirituality, but in terms of the church organization.” - anon.
- 31. “If you’re not enough without the suit, you’ll never be enough with it…” — Elder Stark, probably Elder Stark
- 32. ✓ x x x x x x x x x x Don’t outsource your testimony Craft your own calling and schedule
- 33. ✓ x x x x x x x x x x Don’t outsource your testimony Craft your own calling and schedule
- 41. 5. USE YOUR C.P.S.
- 45. “When a man has the manifestation from the Holy Ghost, it leaves an indelible impression on his soul, one that is not easily erased. It is Spirit speaking to spirit, a n d i t c o m e s w i t h c o n v i n c i n g f o r c e . A manifestation of an angel, or even of the Son of God himself, would impress the e y e a n d m i n d , a n d eventually become dimmed, but the impressions of the Holy Ghost sink deeper into the soul and are more difficult to erase” #oldschoolcool Joseph Fielding Smith Answers, 2:151
- 50. SURVIVE5 CRUCIAL SKILLS FOR KEEPING YOUR TESTIMONY ALIVE BY BEN BERNARDS