Will the Church be affected by those who criticize it?

Thomas R. Valletta

“Later Alma encountered Korihor … I think, not unlike some things that are happening in the Church today. Not too many days ago, in a moment of great concern over a rapid series of events that demonstrated the challenge of those within the Church who have that feeling of criticism and challenge and apostasy, I had an impression, as revelations are. It was strong and it was clear, because lingering in my mind was: ‘Why? Why—when we need so much to be united?’ And there came the answer: ‘It is permitted to be so now that the sifting might take place, and it will have negligible effect upon the Church’” (Packer, “Great Plan of Happiness”).

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