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Nearly everything we do in the Church from missionary work and ministering efforts to baptisms and temple work hinges on an underlying question: who is the Church for? Is the project of the Restoration to find and shepherd the elect of God to exaltation in the next life, or is it to create a Zion community here that strives to include those on the margins, the way Jesus ministered? Should it be one or the other? It’s seemed to us that there’s an implicit discourse around this question playing out on social media, in Church meetings, in books and articles, on podcasts and even in forums like General Conference. And it has significant implications the answer holds real weight as for we participate in the work of the Restoration, but not just that what does it say about the nature of God? This past conference, Pres. Dallin H. Oaks declared “the purpose of this restored Church is to prepare God’s children for salvation in the celestial glory and, more particularly, for ex ....
Jana Riess: Why Latter-day Saints may be selling the ‘restoration’ short by focusing on ‘one true church’ Author Patrick Mason says God’s plan is to heal the world. It includes the LDS Church, but isn’t limited to it. (Jeremy Harmon | Tribune file photo) Patrick Mason speaks while recording the 100th episode of the Mormon Land podcast in 2019. His new book is Restoration: God’s Call to the 21st-Century World. By Jana Riess | Religion News Service | Feb. 5, 2021, 2:36 a.m. “This is the restored church.” “This is the restored gospel.” Those are common enough sentences in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. They’re in our curriculum and our General Conference talks. They’re spoken in sacrament meeting as a matter of course. ....