This week’s “Come, Follow Me” lessons focus on the theme of spiritual and sexual fidelity. There is a heavy emphasis on avoiding pornography—infused with a hefty dose of shame. There is also an attempt to dismiss Ezra Booth’s apostasy as an example of having the wrong foundation for one’s faith.
This week we cover the church’s messaging about the importance of missionary work, the context of the “curse upon the waters” in D&C 61, and the counsel that members need not wait on the Lord’s inspiration for every decision in their lives.
The Come, Follow Me lessons covering D&C § 58 & 59 present messages of scrupulous obedience and strict Sabbath observance. Both sections are presented largely without mention to their historical context. Let’s take a closer look.
This week’s lessons focus on instilling commitment to the church while covering the Law of Consecration, the perils of covenant breaking, and the church as the lens through which truth is discerned from error.
This week’s Come, Follow Me lessons use the revelation addressing the Shakers, and another on spiritual discernment, as a platform to propagandize heteropatriachal marriage as essential to God’s “plan of exaltation.”
In this week’s Come, Follow Me response, we’ll take a look at the expressions of religious enthusiasm that emerged in Kirtland and how Joseph Smith responded to them. Then we’ll look at what lessons the 2021 curriculum has for members today.
This week’s Come, Follow Me lessons focus on the Second Coming of Christ and mix fear-mongering with comfort—fear of the dreadful events to come, and comfort which can only be found in the safety of the church.
The culture of authoritarianism in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is on full display in this week’s Come, Follow Me lessons. Covering Doctrine and Covenants § 41–44, the manuals focus on the revelations comprising “the law of the Church” that Joseph Smith produced shortly after arriving in Kirtland, Ohio.
The themes of this week’s Come, Follow Me lessons are the gathering of the saints and the building of the community of Zion in preparation for the impending second coming of Christ, and the way the church wields coercion in their efforts to instill conformity.