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Welcome to Talkingcripture.org. Welcome to Talking Scripture. I'm Mike.

And I'm Bryce.

And today we're going to be in Doctrine and Covenants 20 through 22.

And this is right around April 6th.

This is the organization of the church, isn't it, Bryce?

Yes. And we can consider the section 20,

kind of like a constitution. You can almost break it down into different articles and say

Article 1, Article 2, much like the U.S. Constitution, and just go back to the basics.

And I think one of the reasons for doing so is that, bless our hearts, we have a tendency as members of the

church to sometimes go beyond and do more, or sometimes we do less. Sometimes in our zeal to

serve and our enthusiasm to fulfill our calling, sometimes we go beyond what we should be doing

and we forget the very basics of the church.

Much like Elder Ballard once said,

occasionally we find some who become so energetic in their church service that their lives become unbalanced.

They start believing that the programs they administer are more important than the people they serve. They complicate

their service with needless frills and embellishments that occupy too much time, cost too

much money, and sap too much energy. One of the most important things we do through the

Gospel of Jesus Christ is to build people. Properly serving others requires effort

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