2/20/2014 Begin with the End in Mind

Weekly Training

2/20/2014

Begin with the End in Mind

How is your consecrated prayer going?

What do you think of when you hear the word “End?”

Read John 18:33-37- What is the “End” that Christ is talking about?

·         Divine Heritage - King of the Jews

·         Role in salvation of others - The Atonement

·         Serve and give of Himself to others

·         Testifiy and teach of truth

·         To be crucified

·         Additional Thoughts?

In the Gospel of Jesus Christ, we talk about “Enduring to the End,” what is the “End” we are talking about?

·         Eternal life

·         Continuation of each ordinance

·         Enduring to become like Jesus Christ

·         Complete Conversion

·         Additional Thoughts?

What are some ends that we work towards in our life?

·         Lunch, marriage, More Money, Career, Graduation, Retirement

·         Mission, First Endowment, Kids, Grandkids

·         Additional Thoughts?

Read this quote from Elder Bednar’s talk “Ye Must Be Born Again”

The Lord’s authorized servants repeatedly teach that one of the principal purposes of our mortal existence is to be spiritually changed and transformed through the Atonement of Jesus Christ. Alma declared:

“Marvel not that all mankind, yea, men and women, all nations, kindreds, tongues and people, must be born again; yea, born of God, changed from their carnal and fallen state, to a state of righteousness, being redeemed of God, becoming his sons and daughters;

“And thus they become new creatures; and unless they do this, they can in nowise inherit the kingdom of God” (Mosiah 27:25–26).

We are instructed to “come unto Christ, and be perfected in him, and deny [ourselves] of all ungodliness” (Moroni 10:32), to become “new creature[s]” in Christ (see 2 Corinthians 5:17), to put off “the natural man” (Mosiah 3:19), and to experience “a mighty change in us, or in our hearts, that we have no more disposition to do evil, but to do good continually” (Mosiah 5:2). Please note that the conversion described in these verses is mighty, not minor—a spiritual rebirth and fundamental change of what we feel and desire, what we think and do, and what we are. Indeed, the essence of the gospel of Jesus Christ entails a fundamental and permanent change in our very nature made possible through our reliance upon “the merits, and mercy, and grace of the Holy Messiah” (2 Nephi 2:8). As we choose to follow the Master, we choose to be changed—to be spiritually reborn.

To what End are YOU ultimately working towards?

How does you End determine where you end up?

How does your End affect how you receive the restored gospel?

·         Faith

·         Repentance

·         Baptism

·         Gift of Holy Ghost

·         Enduring to the End

Practice- Feedback/coaching

Select a Missionary concern

·         Companionship struggle

·         Lack of desire to study

·         I know it all mentality

·         Teaching lessons, not people

·         Lack of doctrine in teaching

As a group, decide what “end” you should be shooting for… (Moment, shift, lesson, MTC, Mission, Life, Eternal Life..)

Help that missionary endure to the right end (5 min)

Evaluation-

·         To what end are you helping missionaries work towards

·         How did they receive the restored Gospel through your coaching?

Invitation- Begin with the End in Mind

·         Consider to what end you are working towards physically, mentally, spiritually, temporally, emotionally

·         Continue your consecrated prayers… consider the effects of the Ends in your life and how they impact your daily life