{"id":51546,"date":"2025-10-13T14:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T20:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=51546"},"modified":"2025-10-12T14:53:37","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T20:53:37","slug":"your-reactions-to-church-yesterday-10-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2025\/10\/your-reactions-to-church-yesterday-10-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Reactions to Church Yesterday, 10\/12"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is the latest invitation for reactions to local meetings, in the vein of my post<\/a> on September 25th about how we can take what happens in Church meetings\u2014sermons, lessons and anything else\u2014and enter a conversation with them, magnifying what was said or adding what we think.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m convinced that even if the speaker or teacher is poorly prepared, we can still find elements in what is said and what happens that inspires and edifies us. Even if church meetings aren\u2019t conducted in a way that reaches us, we can take responsibility and find a way to feel the spirit.<\/p>\n

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My suggestion for putting this into practice is to write down reactions and thoughts to what happened in Church. You might keep your own \u2018spiritual journal\u2019, or, if you like, you can post your reactions below. I\u2019m adding my own reactions and thoughts as a comment to this post \u2014 because those reactions aren\u2019t any better than anyone else\u2019s.<\/p>\n

Let me emphasize that this is NOT a place to criticize what is wrong with church. The point is to post what you learned because of what happened at Church. Think of it in the format, \u201cThey said or did this, and I said that.\u201d Even the things you dislike the most can be turned into lessons for what the gospel teaches we should do.<\/p>\n

My hope is that these reactions serve as an example of a better way to treat what happens at Church instead of the perennial complaints about speaker or teacher preparation or ability, or complaints that the Church should do things differently.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

[I should also note that I skipped last week because it was following General Conference \u2014 the most heavily examined meetings of the year, the best prepared, and the most discussed. I don\u2019t think I need to add more discussion about Conference. Instead, I think we can benefit from thinking about our weekly local meetings differently and finding ways to get the most out of those meetings.]<\/p>\n

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Below, I\u2019m adding my \u201cconversation\u201d with what happened at Church this past Sunday in the first comment. Feel free to add your \u201cconversations\u201d with what you experienced below.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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This is the latest invitation for reactions to local meetings, in the vein of my post on September 25th about how we can take what happens in Church meetings\u2014sermons, lessons and anything else\u2014and enter a conversation with them, magnifying what was said or adding what we think. I\u2019m convinced that even if the speaker or teacher is poorly prepared, we can still find elements in what is said and what happens that inspires and edifies us. Even if church meetings aren\u2019t conducted in a way that reaches us, we can take responsibility and find a way to feel the spirit. My suggestion for putting this into practice is to write down reactions and thoughts to what happened in Church. You might keep your own \u2018spiritual journal\u2019, or, if you like, you can post your reactions below. I\u2019m adding my own reactions and thoughts as a comment to this post \u2014 because those reactions aren\u2019t any better than anyone else\u2019s. Let me emphasize that this is NOT a place to criticize what is wrong with church. The point is to post what you learned because of what happened at Church. Think of it in the format, \u201cThey said or did this, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latter-day-saint-thought"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51547,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51546\/revisions\/51547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}