GC Debrief — What is Purity?

Elder Eyring at conference taught that “purity brings power.”

The easiest way to understand that is that if you follow God’s rules, He grants you power.  That easy understanding makes it seem like the connection between purity and power is arbitrary, part of a system of rewards and punishments.  While that kind of easy understanding is good enough for some purposes, almost nothing in the gospel is arbitrary when you get down into it.  We should ask ourselves,  how does purity inherently bring power?  How is power inherent in purity?

Step back and think about the word purity outside church contexts.  It can mean 100%.  Focused.  Concentrated.  If you described a boxer’s motion as “pure,” no one would think it odd at all that his actions were also powerful.   Pure here means no wasted effort, no inefficiency, no drag.

Everyone would instantly get why a “pure” drug is more powerful.

Be pure like a laser.