Daniel taught our family home evening lesson last night to fulfill a missionary challenge for seminary. He taught us why we need the Book of Mormon. He had us look up scriptures from the various prophets of the Book of Mormon and we made a list of what we learned. Here is our list.
The Book of Mormon was written:
- To persuade people to believe in Christ
- To express the things of a prophet’s soul for his children
- For a wise purpose
- And it was kept and preserved over time
- For our day
- For a future people
- To call us to come unto Christ
- For the descendants of the Lamanites, the Jews, and the Gentiles
- To join with the Bible and the records of the 10 tribes to convince the world of truth
- And by it and other records will the world be judged
- To help us grow closer to God as we obey its precepts…
Daniel shared this quote by Ezra Taft Benson,
…The only problem the objector has to resolve for himself is whether the Book of Mormon is true. For if the Book of Mormon is true, then Jesus is the Christ, Joseph Smith was his prophet, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is true, and it is being led today by a prophet receiving revelation.
And Moroni’s promise (Moroni 10:4-5) to all who study and ask in faith if the book is true,
And when ye shall receive these things, I would exhort you that ye would ask God, the Eternal Father, in the name of Christ, if these things are not true; and if ye shall ask with a sincere heart, with real intent, having faith in Christ, he will manifest the truth of it unto you, by the power of the Holy Ghost.
And by the power of the Holy Ghost ye may know thetruth of all things.
Then we ate doughnuts. Awesome, quick, drama-free family home evening. Hooray.