Week 10 Entrepreneurship Reflections
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/2000/10/the-challenge-to-become?lang=eng&query=challenge+become+(name%3a%22Dallin+H.+Oaks%22)
I enjoyed the reading this week. As usual, the religious speeches are my favorite. Dallin H. Oaks gave a great talk in 2000. He explained that the world wants us to KNOW something while the church wants us to BECOME something. He tells a parable of a wealthy father teaching his children that he can give them what he has, but he can't give them what he is. They would have to follow his example and do what he did to become like him. If we want to become like the Savior, we need to follow His example and watch Him closely.
A little later Elder Oaks said my favorite quote, "Exaltation is an eternal family experience."
"...We should remember that our family relationships—even more than our Church callings—are the setting in which the most important part of that development can occur. The conversion we must achieve requires us to be a good husband and father or a good wife and mother. Being a successful Church leader is not enough. Exaltation is an eternal family experience, and it is our mortal family experiences that are best suited to prepare us for it."
This is not a new concept for me, but it still resonated with me and I have been thinking about it all week.
He goes on to talk about the furnace of affliction, how it refines and sanctifies us to become what God wants us to be.
I also loved what he said about charity. He said it is a CONDITION not an act. It is something one becomes.
"The reason charity never fails and the reason charity is greater than even the most significant acts of goodness he cited is that charity, “the pure love of Christ” (Moro. 7:47), is not an act but a condition or state of being. Charity is attained through a succession of acts that result in a conversion. Charity is something one becomes."
The other resource that I enjoyed was the video on Your Emotional Fingerprint. In the video he told a story of an old Indian legend of the two wolves within us. One is greed and evil and the other one is joy and happiness. The one that wins is the one that we feed.
I enjoyed the reading this week. As usual, the religious speeches are my favorite. Dallin H. Oaks gave a great talk in 2000. He explained that the world wants us to KNOW something while the church wants us to BECOME something. He tells a parable of a wealthy father teaching his children that he can give them what he has, but he can't give them what he is. They would have to follow his example and do what he did to become like him. If we want to become like the Savior, we need to follow His example and watch Him closely.
A little later Elder Oaks said my favorite quote, "Exaltation is an eternal family experience."
"...We should remember that our family relationships—even more than our Church callings—are the setting in which the most important part of that development can occur. The conversion we must achieve requires us to be a good husband and father or a good wife and mother. Being a successful Church leader is not enough. Exaltation is an eternal family experience, and it is our mortal family experiences that are best suited to prepare us for it."
This is not a new concept for me, but it still resonated with me and I have been thinking about it all week.
He goes on to talk about the furnace of affliction, how it refines and sanctifies us to become what God wants us to be.
I also loved what he said about charity. He said it is a CONDITION not an act. It is something one becomes.
"The reason charity never fails and the reason charity is greater than even the most significant acts of goodness he cited is that charity, “the pure love of Christ” (Moro. 7:47), is not an act but a condition or state of being. Charity is attained through a succession of acts that result in a conversion. Charity is something one becomes."
The other resource that I enjoyed was the video on Your Emotional Fingerprint. In the video he told a story of an old Indian legend of the two wolves within us. One is greed and evil and the other one is joy and happiness. The one that wins is the one that we feed.
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