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In the LDS Church today, temples serve two main purposes: (1) temples are locations in which Latter-day Saints holding a temple recommend can perform ordinances on behalf of themselves and their deceased ancestors, and (2) temples are considered to be a house of holiness where members can go to commune with God and receive personal revelation. [16]
For members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), prayer is a means of communicating with God. [1] Such communication is considered to be two-way, with the praying individual both expressing thoughts to God and receiving revelation , or communication from God, in return. [ 1 ]
At the April 1995 general conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), church president Gordon B. Hinckley announced the creation of a new leadership position known as the area authority. [1] In 1997, area authorities were renamed area authority seventies and ordained to the office of seventy.
In the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church)—Mormonism's largest denomination—there have been numerous changes to temple ceremonies in the church's over-200-year history. Temples are not churches or meetinghouses designated for public weekly worship services, but rather sacred places that only admit members in good ...
The Moses Lake Washington Temple is a temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) in Moses Lake, Washington.The intent to build the temple was announced on April 7, 2019, by church president Russell M. Nelson, during general conference. [4]
The LDS Church teaches that this is the only gospel ever taught by Jesus, and that it is imparted in the Bible, Doctrine and Covenants, and most plainly in the Book of Mormon. (See also 2 Nephi 25:24–30; Articles of Faith 1:1–4.)
Inez Smith Davis, The Story of the Church: A History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and of Its Legal Successor, the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, 12th edition, Herald House, 1981. ISBN 0-8309-0188-4; Roger D. Launius, Joseph III: Pragmatic Prophet, University of Illinois Press: 1995. ISBN 0-252-06515-8
Seventy is a priesthood office in the Melchizedek priesthood of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). Traditionally, a church member holding this priesthood office is a "traveling minister" [1] and an "especial witness" [2] of Jesus Christ, charged with the mission of preaching the gospel to the entire world under the direction of the Twelve Apostles. [3]