(Corinth)

Bertha Belch, returning from a mission to Africa, will be speaking tonight at a fireside. Come hear Bertha

Belch all the way from Africa.The cost of the Fasting & Prayer Conference includes lunch."Ladies, don't forget the rummage sale. It's a chance

to get rid of  those things not worth keeping around the house. Don't forget your husbands.

The peacemaking meeting scheduled for today has been canceled due to a conflict.

Potluck supper Sunday at 5:00 PM - prayer and medication to follow Don't let worry kill you off - let the Church help.Sister Charlene Mason sang "I will not pass this way again”. The ward

was very pleasedFor those of you who have children and don't know it, we have a

nursery in the primary room.Attend and you will hear an excellent speaker and heave a healthy

lunch. Barbara remains in the hospital and needs blood donors for more

transfusions She is also having trouble sleeping and requests tapes of Bro. Hinckley’s lessons...

Joseph Smith: first look to see what question prompted the revelation.

Who is the revelation directed to?

What other chapters or ideas surround it?

What does the Lord/author want us to do?

Ancient Corinth was a city of debauchery, lewdness, and evil. Even by pagan standards the Corinthians were notoriously sensual and immoral.

Their very religion itself centered around the worship of Aphrodite (Venus) and included the sacrificing of chastity by virgins. Drunkenness, lasciviousness, and sex sin were proverbial.

And as is natural in such a society, the people of the Roman colony of Corinth were given to faction and strife, and to the solving of moral issues through philosophical contention.

Question: What effect would that lifestyle have on everyday life?

formed cliques and divisions,committed sexual sins, taken their brethren to court, trusted in the wisdom of men,squabbled over minor points

of doctrinereturned to pagan practices

(idolatry), perverted the sacrament

(false doctrine)and denied the Resurrection.

Mosiah 26Now it came to pass that there were

many of the rising generation that could not understand the words of king Benjamin…

They did not believe what had been said concerning the resurrection of the dead, neither did they believe concerning the coming of Christ.

And now because of their unbelief they could not understand the word of God; and their hearts were hardened.

 And they would not be baptized; neither would they join the church…

And now in the reign of Mosiah they were not half so numerous as the people of God; but because of the dissensions among the brethren they became more numerous.

1 Cor 1: 11-141 Cor 12: 12-21And more

importantly:1 Cor 12: 22-24

1 Cor 12:31: But covet earnestly the best gifts: and yet show I unto you a more excellent way…

Question:What are the “best gifts”?

[Paul] teaches that all the parts of the body of Christ--the Church are needed for their separate gifts, in fact, that those with "less honorable" and "uncomely" gifts are more needed and more in need of attention and honor because the world will automatically honor and use the others.

It is in the Church especially that those with the gifts of vulnerability, pain, handicap, need, ignorance, intellectual arrogance, social pride, even prejudice and sin--those Paul calls the members which "seem to be more feeble"—can be accepted, learned from, helped, and made part of the body so that together we can all be blessed.

It is there that those of us with the more comely and world-honored gifts of riches and intelligence can learn what we most need--to serve and love and patiently learn from those with other gifts.

But that is very hard for the "rich" and "wise“ to do. And that is why those who have one of those dangerous gifts tend to misunderstand and sometimes disparage the Church--which, after all, is made up of the common and unclean, the middle-class, middle-brow, politically unsophisticated, even prejudiced, average members. And we all know how exasperating they can be! The Church is as True as the Gospel

How are we, personally, with members who are:Single?Socially awkward?Handicapped?Ungrateful?Arrogant?Unreliable?Demanding?Successful?Beautiful?

Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.

For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.

But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

"When we conclude to make a Zion, we will make it, and this work commences in the heart of each person.

I have Zion in my view constantly. We are not going to wait for angels, or for Enoch. . . to come and build [it], but we are going to build it [ourselves]" (JD 9:284).