'There are Latter-day Saints, and probably a whole lot of followers of other faiths, who do use supposed communication with God as a means to have their own will done, as a weapon of control,' writes Tribune columnist Gordon Monson in his latest piece.
Inspiration can bless lives, but what about when messages come not from above but from beneath — or within?Is there a slipperier foundational concept in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints than the one that centers on being guided by the spirit, the one that relies on inspiration and revelation from deity?
Let’s back up here and get a running start at this bedrock of Latter-day Saint belief. It is a longtime tenet that individuals can speak to the heavens. They can pray to God and receive specific answers to specific questions regarding important — and even not so important — issues affecting their lives.
Either way, the dependence on that foundational belief is found throughout the faith, its practices at every level, and the way it is led, run and structured.Whenever people are “called” to a congregational role by church leaders, as a part of the faith’s lay clergy, it is said that they are chosen via the spirit, via revelation sprinkled upon those doing the calling.
A missionary I knew in Germany long ago said she and her companion were prompted to go to a specific street at a specific time in a large city. When they arrived there, they met a solitary dignified woman standing on a sidewalk who happened to be visiting family members in the former West Germany for a couple of days from her home in the former East Germany, then under communist rule.
Congregations have heard a thousand stories about such occurrences, how in some cases a certain thought or name comes into a church leader’s consciousness when he’s praying and pondering, within his stewardship, about considerations on the table, about whom to call to what position. This scene from a Book of Mormon video depicts inhabitants of Zarahemla kneeling and praying to God when their spiritual and governmental leader, King Benjamin, invites them to do so.And obviously, church callings, some of which require huge amounts of time and effort on the part of the individuals being asked to fill the roles, affect the persons being called more than they affect the one doing the calling.
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