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A couple of months ago I found myself sitting a few rows behind the pulpit in the Sacrament meeting room which I often am on Tuesday nights. That’s where we hold the opening exercises for Youth activities and as is typically the case every other week, a Young Man who had obviously not been prepared to give a spiritual thought was flipping frantically through the scriptures always kept beside the microphone. My friend and I were guessing which scripture mastery he was going to pick. I went with James 1:5-6 and she was pretty confident with Mathew 5:14-16. These were the ones that involved the least amount of brain power, which wasn’t a coincidence.

We quickly found that we had overestimated him as he stood at the front with a little smile on his face as if he’d come up with something truly brilliant.

“John 14:15” He said, managing a straight face and somewhat sincere tone “If ye love me keep my commandments” He closed his scriptures with a confident thud before finishing off with “Yeah, that’s pretty self explanatory, in the name of Jesus Christ amen”

I, along with everyone else (except maybe some of the more serious leaders) thought this was funny. What isn’t funny though is I’ve found that this sort of thing is becoming more and more common.

Just a couple days ago a girl in my seminary class gave this as a spiritual thought “Revelation 14:9 ‘If any man have an ear, let him hear.’ So yeah, as a general rule, if you have ears you can hear… unless of course you’re deaf. Uh… wait… never mind, I guess that doesn’t really make any sense does it? Whatever, in the name of Jesus Christ, amen”

Although I have to admit that stuff like this is funny, it kind of bugs me. Spiritual thoughts mean a lot to me Read the rest of this entry »