Category Archives: Institute for the Exploring Mormon

Compare[1] Purpose To help class members identify gifts of the Spirit, seek to obtain them, and use them to serve others understand them in context, and see through issues with them. Attention Activity The teacher should begin by standing up on a … Continue reading →

Compare[1] Purpose To explain the the 1800s mindset that would lead people to join the Mormons. Attention Activity Take your smart phone and put it away from you just out of reach. Now scoot away from your computer and think … Continue reading →

Compare[1] Purpose To illustrate that thinking the scriptures apply to us is “magic” thinking and that the church basically teaches a form of divination through it. Attention Activity Imagine that you saw an old woman in a turban, with stars … Continue reading →

Compare[1] Purpose To help students understand that there is very little that is unique to the LDS faith, and that a lot was borrowed from other sources. This plays into the LDS idea that the church came from an original … Continue reading →

Compare[1] Purpose To question the restoration of the priesthood events and story as we’ve heard it from correlated manuals. To make people think about why the story is so different and why the correlation committee changed the parts they did. … Continue reading →

Compare[1] Everyone have a great Martin Luther King day holiday? Great. Anyone do anything special? Yes, Jimmy? Oh, that’s very interesting, thanks for sharing. Attention activity: Have everyone say, “Well duh!” Now, have everyone recite the fourth article of faith. The … Continue reading →

Compare [1] Note: We’ve covered that personal revelation can be a horrible guide, but we DO get gut impulses and moments of real inspiration where bits of our subconscious/bodies know things that we don’t. We’re going to focus on that. Also, … Continue reading →

Purpose To help class members understand how to prepare to receive understand the difficulties, problems, and errors caused by personal revelation and to encourage them to do so help them view such a source skeptically. Attention Activity Look at these pictures:     What … Continue reading →