[Teachldsseminary] OT -- Inspiration

[Kent Bowden]

I have tried very hard not to comment on this subject matter, but I feel the
it has reach a point of not sustaining local leaders, which all of us have
covenanted to do.  The person who quoted D&C 121:39

39 We have learned by sad experience that it is the nature and disposition
of almost all men, as soon as they get a little authority, as they suppose,
they will immediately begin to exercise unrighteous dominion.
This person should think long and hard about their comment.  Do you know
this Bishop's heart?  Do you know he reason for what he does? Is he the
Bishop of the ward or not?  We have taught our students that complaining
about the leaders is one of the first step to apostasy.

I know that I am stepping on toes in this letter, but I feel that we need to
support the inspiration of our leaders (local an up) and not encourage each
other to look down on any Bishop, ours or anywhere else.


On 1/9/07, Marji <king.attolia at gmail.com> wrote:
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> =>>I'm sure this will be a trial of this Sister's faith, but it will all
> be
> for good in the end.
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> This sister wasn't released from her calling when your husband was called.
> Yet, if "several times" in only 8 weeks, he has superceeded her authority
> in
> her calling with his own "new" authority as a member of the bishopric, and
> it is resulting in a trial of her faith, then I see this as a problem.  He
> wasn't called to her calling, and he has no authority to take it
> over.  She
> is part of his stewardship since he has responsibility for music, and
> human
> trumps program management, including hymn selection.  If his actions are
> causing her to "shake her faith", step back, pause, and regroup.  Put the
> human first!  It doesn't do much good to try to edify the theoretical
> "spiritually needy" person that some particular hymn is supposed to touch
> when you are trampling a very real, non-theoretical also apparently
> spiritually needy person in the process.
>
> The Lord has many voices - and he can speak to a person's heart no matter
> what hymn is being sung.  He is not limited to our mortal offerings.  His
> power and might trump all.
>
> Micromanaging is not guaranteed to be inspired.  By his actions your
> husband
> is telling her:  "I know better than you, my authority trumps yours, and
> whatever I say goes, even if it causes you to have a huge personal trial,
> you have to learn to submit to "my" authority.  I'm in charge here, and
> your
> ideas are small, unimportant, and not as valuable as mine."
>
> I see a problem here, and I hope it gets resolved in favor of the sister.
> Theory X management has no place in the kingdom and can not masquerade as
> "inspiration".  Remind him of D&C 121:39.  I'm sure he wants to stay far
> away from that.
>
> Someone else wrote:
> "My thought on this is, that it is her calling and she should be getting
> the
> inspiration as to which hymns would be the best fit for the meeting.  Is
> there really a right or wrong way to pick a hymn from our hymn book?  It
> is
> not worth hard feelings over...sometimes we need to let the small things
> go."
>
> All of us have had the experience of holding a calling and being released
> and seeing the next person do things quite differently than we did or
> would
> have, and we observe similar situations all the time, where "our personal
> touch" would change and tweak things so they were just so.  But that's
> just
> it - the Lord expects all of us to do our little bits toward helping the
> Kingdom to grow.  Everyone.  In their own ways.
>
> Marji
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