Showing posts with label inviting people to church. Show all posts
Showing posts with label inviting people to church. Show all posts

Sunday, November 13, 2011

Inviting people to church; our duty, our opportunity

I invited a good person to church today. I go to work with her. She came and hopefully enjoyed it. It was a returned missionary speaking, and he did a tremendous job as did the other lady who spoke as well.

It's not that hard to invite people to church. We just need to do it.

I know our message is there to help. Eventually the gospel will be preached in all the world.

D.C. 133:37 And this agospel shall be bpreached unto cevery nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people.

This will only happen as the average church member lets those they know about the church and gospel as well.

Have a great day.


Saturday, May 21, 2011

Impact of living a good life - harmon killebrew

I am a Mormon who believes that it's absolutely vital to live a good life, but a lot of times we don't also talk about the church and invite people to church. How is someone going to know that they're invited to church if no one invites them.

In fact, when I was in my last ward, I taught a combined Sunday lesson and mentioned that Elder Ballard said in a conference talk that many non-members don't know that they're invited to our Sunday meetings. There were two recent converts in the meeting and both of them said that they didn't think they were invited to the meetings until someone specifically invited them.

That's very understandable when you remember that non-members and members who aren't living all of the standards are not allowed into the temple (though we want them all to enter in as they become ready). It's not a stretch that most people just assume that they can't come to any Mormon meetings.

So, please talk to people and invite them to meetings.

However, I also wanted to mention that living a great life can have a profound impact on people. Harmon Killebrew was a Mormon and many people have been quoted recently saying that he was the best person they ever knew. This story explains how Charlie Manuel, the manager for the 2009 World Series champion Phillies was convinced to speak at a mostly LDS university in his hometown in Virginia. It was because of the example of Harmon Killebrew, a teammate of his when they played for the Minnesota Twins.

Enjoy the story and remember to be a good person: