The Sunday School general presidency on studying the ongoing Restoration with ‘Come, Follow Me’ in 2025
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🗓️ 4 February 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
After being sustained in the April 2024 general conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the new Sunday School general presidency began serving on Aug. 1, 2024. Sunday School General President Paul V. Johnson and his first counselor, Brother Chad H Webb, and second counselor, Brother Gabriel W. Reid, join this episode of the Church News podcast to introduce themselves as well as share how studying the ongoing Restoration can help shape stronger testimonies of Jesus Christ and His restored gospel. They discuss what they hope Latter-day Saints will learn from this year’s “Come, Follow Me” curriculum and the Doctrine and Covenants.
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| 0:00.0 | The first thing you see when you open, come follow me, and the first text is, |
| 0:14.1 | conversion is our goal. |
| 0:16.6 | It says the aim of all gospel teaching and learning is to deepen our conversion and to help |
| 0:21.7 | us become more like Jesus Christ. |
| 0:23.8 | That's what we're after. |
| 0:25.7 | It says, for this reason we study the gospel. |
| 0:28.4 | That's why we're doing it. |
| 0:30.0 | We're not just looking for new information. |
| 0:32.3 | We want to become a new creature. |
| 0:34.9 | This means relying on Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ to help us change our hearts, |
| 0:39.6 | our views, our actions, and our very natures. That's the core of what we want to see happen. |
| 0:46.1 | And one of the ways to get there is to focus on the Savior, find him, learn about his attributes, |
| 0:52.2 | and know that he and our Heavenly Father are really after |
| 0:55.4 | helping us to be converted and to come unto them. |
| 1:02.6 | This is John Ryan Jensen, editor of the Church News. |
| 1:06.3 | Welcome to the Church News podcast. |
| 1:08.5 | Today we're taking you on a journey of connection as we discuss |
| 1:11.5 | news and events of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. |
| 1:18.9 | In the April 2024 General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, |
| 1:23.7 | a new Sunday School General Presidency was sustained. And on August 1st of the same year, this new Sunday School General Presidency began to |
| 1:30.5 | officially work together as the head of the Sunday School. |
| 1:33.2 | We're excited on this episode of the Church News podcast to sit down with new president, |
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