Weekly Training Meeting
September 17, 2014
Announcements:
- Put your schedule in work scheduler (put shifts in as if they are putting week one over week two)
- Mark the roll if you have completed the past two trainings and done the assignments
- No Saturday shifts on general conference weekend
- Mission reunion- YOU MUST go to your shift on Friday unless you have an approved sub
- Go to dress and grooming website to look at it for boys and girls. This is for you and your missionaries.
- Introduce yourself to someone you don’t know in the area/ everyone you don’t know in the area!!
From Regional conference last weekend-
“True worship promotes true conversion”
-Whitney Clayton
Group Study:
What does true worship look like?
(Class Insight)
- taking others with you, praying for them to receive revelation
- consecration
- self-sacrificing
- christ centered
- humble/ looking to God
- righteousness
- between us and God
- Understand true relationship with God
- Desire/willing
- obedience out of love, not duty
- Honoring covenants
- Serve only God (Moses 1:15)
- Come seeking guidance
- Love Jesus (Godhead)
- Active participation/thinking
- Developing Christlike attributes
- Natures change because of experience
- Doesn’t take offense
- All heart, might, mind and strength
- Leads to conversion
- Broken heart
- Being willing to sacrifice all we have (Widow’s mite)
- Apply the atonement
- singing the hymns
- Active participation/thinking
- work
- Seek His face
- Think His thoughts
- Worship the Father
- Primary priority
- Complete adoration and reverence for deity
- Going with goals and plans for a change of heart
What does true worship NOT look like?
(Class Insight)
- Come to be seen
- Idolatry (Exodus 20:3-6)
- going through the motions
- sleeping
- On phone at church/texting/facebook/twitter/insta
- Obeying/worshiping without faith
- Pride/self focused
- Not removing yourself from unholy situations
- Self gratification
- Done for recognition from man
- Try to become perfect by myself
- Only sacrificing that which is in abundance
- Giving preconditioned responses
- serving 2 masters; lukewarm
- Gives a good gift grudgingly (Moroni 7:8)
- Non-doctrinal traditions
- Where is our heart when we worship?
Personal Study:
- Review invitations that were given at the end of summer
- Revelation through church attendance, journaling, Reading the Book of Mormon
- Be ready to be a part of training. Get involved. We teach each other and ourselves.
How do we worship? Do we worship in church/sacrament meeting?
How to Worship- Bruce R. McConkie 1971
What are you learning about worship? About your own worship?
Is true worship something you do or something you are?
How can you get true worship?
Invitation:
- Prepare for sacrament weekly
- Consider how you need to improve your worship… DO IT!
