“Teach Nothing Save It Were the Things Which He Had Taught”
Rehearsal and review of that which our leaders have spoken leads to commitment and conviction, and helps to maintain orthodoxy and continuity in doctrine and practice. It is also the perfect system, one ordained by God himself, to insure that those so preaching will be filled with the Spirit and be able to properly expound and expand upon that which has already been revealed. As Joseph Smith taught, “we cannot keep all the commandments without first knowing them, and we cannot expect to know all, or more than we now know unless we comply with or keep those we have already received” (Teachings, p. 256). See commentary on Jacob 4:14; Alma 5:43-49.
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