Teaching For Our Times: “The Voice of Warning"
(Elder D. Todd Christofferson--April 2017 General Conference)
Teacher: Cathy Pratt
“While the duty to warn is felt especially keenly by prophets, it is a duty shared by others as well.“
· “Far from being anxious to condemn, our Heavenly Father and our Savior seek our happiness and plead with us to repent, knowing full well that “wickedness never was [and never will be] happiness.”
· The motivation for raising the warning voice is love—love of God and love of fellowman. To warn is to care.
· Because of His incomparable love and concern for others and their happiness, Jesus was not hesitant to warn.
· Sometimes those who raise a warning voice are dismissed as judgmental. Paradoxically, however, those who claim truth is relative and moral standards are a matter of personal preference are often the same ones who most harshly criticize people who don’t accept the current norm of “correct thinking.”
· Contrasted to this is “the rock of our Redeemer,”a stable and permanent foundation of justice and virtue. How much better it is to have the unchanging law of God by which we may act to choose our destiny rather than being hostage to the unpredictable rules and wrath of the social media mob.
· Ultimately, we are all accountable to God for our choices and the lives we live.
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