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Week 10 COME FOLLOW ME: Doctrine and Covenants – TEACHING IDEAS & RESOURCES | D&C Sections 20 – 22
Questions to Ponder:
Weekly Free Come Follow Me Doctrine and Covenants Resources, Activities, Ideas, Printables, and Supports for Your Students, Toddlers, Family, and Individual Study!
As you read, Doctrine and Covenants 20 – 22 ponder how other people’s opinions may be influencing you. You may also note that in addition to rebuking Joseph Smith, the Lord spoke words of mercy. So each week I will list out some of the questions issued in Come Follow Me. Maybe you pick to ponder about all of them, maybe you pick just one. Whatever you do, ponder on this for the ENTIRE week. Pray about it, discuss it with loved ones, then at the start of the new week, take the time to write down your impressions or thoughts, share them with your family, testify of powerful insights. Each Come Follow Me Lesson asks important and reflective questions. When I first began my individual study… these questions threw me off. Simply because many of these questions required so much depth and individual reflection in order to answer honestly. My first approach to Come Follow Me was to get in, get out, get it done, check it off. These questions simply didn’t allow me to do so. In fact, I felt a little sick when I would read a question like, “How does the spirit speak to you?” and I wouldn’t know the answer right away. After a time, and pondering on that specific question I realized IT’S OKAY. In fact, I think these questions were meant to be set aside, thought about, and pondered. When we try and come up with the quick easy, obvious, answer, we are depriving ourselves of an opportunity to reflect, ponder, pray, and RECEIVE REVELATION. Is this not the whole reason for Come Follow Me? Are we not trying to finetune and recognize how we, and how to receive personal revelation.
- As you read the first 36 verses of this revelation, ask yourself why that might be. You might also make a list of the gospel truths you find. Here are some examples:
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The Book of Mormon and its role in the Restoration (verses 8–12)
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The nature of God (verses 17–19)
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The Atonement of Jesus Christ (verses 20–27)
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- Why would these truths be important to emphasize as the Church was being established? Doctrine and Covenants 20:37, 75–79
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- As you read the instructions “concerning the manner of baptism” in verse 37, think about your own baptism.
- Did you have any of the feelings described in this verse?
- Do you have them now?
- Ponder what you can do to keep vibrant your “determination to serve [Jesus Christ] to the end.”
- As you read about the sacrament in Doctrine and Covenants 20:75–79, try to read these sacred prayers from the perspective of someone hearing them for the first time.
- What insights do you receive about the sacrament? about yourself?
- How might these insights affect the way you prepare to take the sacrament this week?
- If someone asked you to name the duties of a priesthood holder, what would you say? Read Doctrine and Covenants 20:38–60, which lists the duties of various priesthood offices.
- Does anything in these verses change the way you think about priesthood duties and how the Savior does His work?
- How have you been blessed by the work described in these verses?
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What do you learn from Doctrine and Covenants 21:4–9 about the words of the Lord’s prophets? Consider the promises described in verse 6 for those who receive the Lord’s words through His prophet. What do these promises mean to you?
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How can you receive the living prophet’s word “as if from [God’s] own mouth”? (verse 5). What counsel has today’s prophet given that could lead to the blessings promised in verse 6?
- What would we say if someone asked us why we need the Church? What answers do we find in Doctrine and Covenants 20?
- What does it mean to “[walk] in holiness before the Lord”?
- How could your family use these verses to prepare for meaningful, reverent experiences with the sacrament? These verses might suggest things you could ponder during the sacrament, and family members could find or draw pictures of those things. As appropriate, you might bring those pictures to your next sacrament meeting as a reminder of what to think about during the sacrament.
- Consider inviting family members to look for words and phrases in verses 4–5 that teach us about following the Lord’s prophet. What does it mean to receive the prophet’s words in patience? in faith? When have we received the blessings promised in verse 6?
Lesson:
Not necessarily a lesson, but a question that has been running through my mind since last week…
Would you sell the farm?
This question has been on repeat in my mind since a new family in our ward shared it during Sacrament meeting.
While considering this question I can’t help but think of the wealthy young man that Jesus essentially posed the same question. Sell your riches and follow me.
So… would YOU sell it?
What’s your farm?
Is there something you’re being asked to sacrifice in order to build His Kingdom or bring others to Him?
Interestingly, I keep learning about a false principle that’s engrained in me. It follows this line of thinking: If I were Martin, I would sell the farm confident that if I were on the Lord’s errand, THEN obviously the Book of Mormon would sell and I would make by investment back 10 fold…. Contrary, the books didn’t sell.
We can’t put our own expectations of deliverance on the Lord, especially when our expectations are based on other’s agency.
A principle I do know, however. Is that when you are living up to your Covenants, the Lord is bound, and THINGS. WORK. OUT. Through Christ’s enabling power, we can be made MORE, our sacrifice can be made MORE, we can feel peace when we shouldn’t… We will be delivered, but it won’t always be according to the limitations we place on it.
In hindsight of the books not selling… Just look at the fruit of Martin’s investment today.
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“In the twentieth section of the Doctrine and Covenants, the Lord devotes several verses to summarizing the vital truths which the Book of Mormon teaches. (See vs. 17–36.) It speaks of God, the creation of man, the Fall, the Atonement, the ascension of Christ into heaven, prophets, faith, repentance, baptism, the Holy Ghost, endurance, prayer, justification and sanctification through grace, and loving and serving God”
-Ezra Taft Benson
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Teaching Ideas for Toddlers & Young Children
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With young children, I understand the STRUGGLE and the attention span you are dealing with. Below are some of my favorite videos or audio recordings|podcasts you can listen to and watch with your children. Many of these are PERFECT for when everyone is strapped in the car seat. My 5-year-old now requests many of these over the radio. This allows us to listen, review and discuss together, and listen again throughout the week. Many of the videos I share can be found on the Saint’s Radio Channel App. (Formerly Mormon Channel App, If you don’t already have this, DOWNLOAD NOW.)
I am absolutely LOVING the YouTube Channel, Latter Day Kids. Each week they put out a beautifully illustrated video meant for young children to be used in conjunction with the Come Follow Me Lessons. This week’s video is all about All Things Denoting there is a God! You can even head to their website to download discussion questions to go along with the video and a fun coloring page.
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Read:
- Activity Suggestion from the Friend
- Scripture Stories: Doctrine and Covenants
- For Young Readers: Scripture Stories
Activity Suggestions:
***Also Available as a DIGITAL coloring page through the Gospel for Kids App
Since stumbling across Crystal’s website, she continues to AMAZE me at the FREE and creative content she makes WEEKLY. I can’t wrap my mind around the commitment, time and talent she devotes each week. If this isn’t an example of sharing your talents to build up the Kingdom, I’m not sure what is…. Make sure to check out @the.red.crystal activities for the week! Here you will find fun interactive printables, games, and activites aligned with Come Follow Me for the Week!
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Activity Suggestions From Come Follow Me:
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Possible Activities
- What does it mean to “[walk] in holiness before the Lord”? It might be fun for family members to draw or write on pieces of paper some things that could help them walk in holiness or things that could distract them from doing so. Then they could create a path using the papers and try to walk on the path, stepping only on the drawings that will bring them to Christ.
Teaching Ideas for Families
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The church recently released, “Saints,” A New Narrative approach to church history. It. Is. WONDERFUL. This gives such depth and understanding to the early saints. Historians did a remarkable job marrying facts, conversations, and primary sources with the art of storytelling. Every conversation read, or detail noted, comes from a primary account. Saints is also intended to be read and comprehended at an 8th-grade reading level making it accessible to nearly every Latter-Day Saint. Please add this to your study this year!
…I am SO EXCITED to share the following videos with you! In a nutshell, they are a short introduction and overview of the sections of the Doctrine and Covenants. You get a brief, historically accurate backstory to the section, as well as a quick look at what it contains. In other words, this is the PERFECT support to add to your family’s study!
These videos are put together by Doctrine and Covenants Central, like Book of Mormon Central. Their vision is to “build enduring faith in Jesus Christ by making the Doctrine and Covenants accessible, comprehensible, and defensible to people everywhere.”
I remember first hearing about their vision during a Fair Mormon Conference a few years ago when this vision was still just a vision, tears filled my eyes and my heart swelled at the thought of how needed and necessary their vision and efforts are, especially today. I wish I could put into words how grateful I am to those that share their talents so freely. If you really want to dive in deep to each section, consider visiting their website and looking up the section you would like to study, or downloading their FREE Scripture Study App, (Scripture Plus)
Click Here to Visit Doctrine and Covenants Central
Click Here to Download the Scripture Plus App
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- I LOVE using the Institute and Seminary Manuals to aid my study! They answer questions, provide insight and background coupled with beautiful quotes from Prophets and Apostles.
- You HAVE to start reading or listening to SAINTS: (“Saints” was recently released by the church it is a narrative approach, (all primary-sourced insights) to Church History) It is intentionally written in a way the entire family can enjoy and benefit from!
- Another GREAT Resource is Revelations in Context: This is another book released by the church, its purpose is to give you the behind the scene details to the Section of the revelation given. What prompted the question, what was going on…etc.
- “The Doctrine and Covenants is a book of answers to prayers: many of the sacred revelations in this book came in response to questions. So it’s appropriate to begin studying the Doctrine and Covenants by considering the question that began the latter-day outpouring of revelation.” This book will help provide that background…
- Church Essay: Common Consent
- Church Essay: Founding Meeting of the Church of Christ
- Church Essay: Printing and Publishing of the Book of Mormon
- Church Essay: Religious Beliefs in Joseph Smith’s Day
- People of the Doctrine Covenants: Oliver Cowdery
- People of the Doctrine Covenants: Peter Whitmer Sr.
Activity Suggestions:
I’m SO EXCITED to share these new, FREE coloring pages by the talented Hadley Mae @Colorwinkstudio Each week she shares a new coloring page related to the Come Follow Me lesson!
Click Here for this week’s Coloring Page by Color Wink Studio
My other favorite find comes from the efforts of Tiffany over at Saving Talents. She puts together DAILY, FREE Devotionals for Come Follow Me. One of my favorite resources she creates are these Scripture of the Week Handwriting Practice Verses in both print and cursive. This makes my teacher heart swell! To download these, head to her site, click on the image then use the shortcuts like {control P} or right click on the image to print!
Click Here to visit this week’s Saving Talents Post for Come Follow Me
Individual Study & Extension
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Really enjoying the new podcast “Follow Him,” by John Bytheway and Hank Smith, each week they bring in a new expert to discuss the sections covered in Come Follow Me. A dear friend David Perry actually helps produce this podcast and it is truly exceptional.
Read:
- Doctrine & Covenants Timeline and Chart
- Chronology of the Doctrine & Covenants
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“Here Is Wisdom; Yea, To Be a Seer, a Revelator, . . . and a Prophet”
- Joseph Smith and “The Only True and Living Church”
- The Book of Mormon as the Keystone of Church Administration
- Fayette: The Place the Church was Organized
- The Articles and Covenants of the Church of Christ and the Book of Mormon
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