Doctrine and Covenants Retrospective

Now that we have finished the D&C I want to off-the-cuff reminisce about what  my personal highlights were.  I encourage everyone to do this.  Learning and growth require some digestion.

JSH-1, D&C 88, D&c 121 and 122, the vision in D&C 110, and D&C 76 are all stunning.  Same with the New Song for baptism for the dead.    Same with 138. To me, their revelatory character is self-evident.  Our best Sunday School lessons last year were those sections where instead of having a lesson or class participation we just read them out loud, to the great strength of the Spirit.

Speaking of Sunday School, tackling Women n the Priesthood head on went very well.  Incredibly well.  In large part because I said ‘no comments’ but one woman raised her hand anyway and the Spirit said to let her rip.

Our usual Sunday School style is highly participatory, but the part where I did a lecture on demography after the Prophet’s conference talk went over incredibly well.

Since we are  heading into the Old Testament it bears mentioning that the over-all feel of the Doctrine and Covenants is like a synthesis of the Old Testament and the New.

the New Testament is individual, focused on salvation and spiritual matters, personal.  The Old Testament is community/ focused on a people and more temporal.  The D&C is a mix  (so is the Book of Mormon)