[Teachldsseminary] TEACH: the battle on the front lines

[Marji]

My purpose was to generate discussion about how we could address this with
our seminary students since it sounds like most of them will be dealing with
it.
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We are on the front line of defense for our students!  How can we expect to
help protect them if we are ignorant of their challenges and trials!
Absolutely this is an important topic to discuss.  I had no idea this was
going on.  It is very distressing to me, and I am sure to others.  What an
indoctrination effort is happening to them.

No wonder the Lord has challenged the entire church, families, church
education efforts to Raise the Bar.   If we don't our students and children
will soon be swept away in the deluge of wickedness and evil.

Can we apply the scriptures to their lives?  Their spiritual lives and ours
depend on it.  Helping them pull out the principles to see where they fit in
modern day application is precisely what we are about.  They might be able
to spew off multiple scripture mastery verses, but if we leave them
vulnerable to the tactics and indoctrination efforts of the wicked, have we
truly served them as the Lord would have us do?

Henry B. Eyring:

*I am grateful to be with you and for our opportunity to teach the gospel to
the young people of the Church. They hold the future in their hands. The
Church has always been one generation away from extinction. If a whole
generation were lost, which will not happen, we would lose the Church. But
even a single individual lost to the gospel of Jesus Christ closes doors for
generations of descendants, unless the Lord reaches out to bring some of
them back. Our trust from the Lord as teachers of youth is great. And so is
our opportunity.
==>>     The world in which our students choose spiritual life or death is
changing rapidly. When their older brothers and sisters return to visit the
same schools and campuses they attended, they find a radically different
moral climate. The language in the hallways and the locker rooms has
coarsened. Clothing is less modest. Pornography has moved into the open.
Tolerance for wickedness has not only increased, but much of what was called
wrong is no longer condemned at all and may, even by our students, be
admired. Parents and administrators have in many cases bent to the pressures
coming from a shifting world to retreat from moral standards once widely
accepted.
 ==>>    The spiritual strength sufficient for our youth to stand firm just
a few years ago will soon not be enough. Many of them are remarkable in
their spiritual maturity and in their faith. But even the best of them are
sorely tested. And the testing will become more severe. <<==
     The youth are responsible for their own choices. And there are many
others to help them. Faithful parents and priesthood and youth leaders shore
up the faith of the students we teach. But ours is a unique opportunity.
Students at our Church universities and colleges have been required to take
our religion classes. The prophets of God have repeatedly endorsed seminary
and institute classes and urged the youth to become our students. We are
given a regular, often daily, opportunity to meet with them where the word
of God from the scriptures is the text and we are their trusted guides.*
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*Read the whole quote at http://www.schoolofabraham.com/raisesights.htm*
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*Marji*
*EMS teacher to some stalwart students who nonetheless face challenges*
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