Yesterday, the singles ward I attend had a special meeting. The Stake President announced the splitting of the ward. Four stakes fed into the 19th ward. Membership was ~170 Young Single Adults's. In that four stake area reside 1400 YSA members. A few attend their homeward, some, other wards around the valley. The rest and majority are inactive. The split is to help facilitate more room and more work opportunities. The 4 new YSA wards are each responsible to their own stake. All wards will meet in the same building. They will encourage all those who reside in the stake boundaries to attend the YSA ward, instead of the home ward or a student ward. At 9am, my ward and one other will meet. We will have R.S. and Priesthood while they have Sacrament Meeting. Sunday School will be combined, then we switch. At 1pm, the other two wards will do the same. Activities will be done together. We all have our own bishops, presidencies, everything.
My stake president talked about how the church can change, but the gospel never does. He quoted D&C 3:2. "For God doth not walk in crooked paths, neither doth he turn to the right hand nor to the left, neither doth he vary from that which he hath said, therefore his paths are straight, and his course is one eternal round." The organization of the church is supplementary to aiding souls throughout their test of mortality. All the organizations are tools and their purpose is for progression. Leaders are necessary to oversee that things are accomplished. Through different assignments, we are meant to grow and progress in knowledge. Assignments from the Lord are commandments, which we need to follow. Commandments are in place merely to help us grow to our FULL potential. The world would have us do whatever makes us feel good in the moment, do what we want. The Lord has so much more in store for us than we can ever imagine. The gospel is about our Heavenly Father, who wants the BEST for all His children. Not just a good life, but the best eternity we can have. So many live underneath who they really are. Everyone has so much potential, to be like Christ is in everyone's reach, because He didn't leave anyone out in His Atonement. If some could just see beyond the "church" and really see God in His glory, and how wonderful people and life can be.
2 comments:
I'm glad that they aren't forcing those in the YSA demographic to go to the singles ward. I never had any inclination to go to a singles ward. I liked my home ward. I had a calling. And I still managed to get married.
However, I can see how this can be a good thing for those who feel as if they don't "belong" in their home ward. To every one their own.
Addendum: Like you said, the Church is true. It may change how it operates to better meet the needs of it's members, but that does not mean that it's doctrine has changed.
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