Managing Church Meetings
& The Purpose of Conferences


Readings:

General Handbook (2020)

     chapter 2 - item 2 - The Work of Salvation and Exaltation in the Home

     chapter 29 - Meetings in the Church
 
Author Title


Pres. Boyd K. Packer The Unwritten Order of Things (1996)
Reverence Invites Revelation (1991)
Funerals--A Time for Reverence
 
Pres. Russell M. Nelson Worshiping at Sacrament Meeting (June 2003)
Pres. Gordon B. Hinckley Reverence and Morality
Pres. Dallin H. Oaks Sacrament Meeting and the Sacrament (2008) 
Worship Through Music (1994)
 
Scott Taylor (Church News)How Stake Conferences and Stake Presidency Reorganizations
Have Carried on During the Pandemic
(2021)
Dr. William G. HartleyMormon Sundays (Sabbath observance since 1830) (1978)
Dr. Margaret Hoopes Community and Communing: The Power of Testimony Meeting
 

Questions for Review:

1. True or False. Some personal problems are so complex that one needs to counsel with or receive a blessing from a general authority to solve them. (Pres. Packer, "The Unwritten Order of Things")

2. What goal in the lives of the members should we strive to accomplish with our Church meetings?  (Pres. Packer, "Reverence Invites Revelation")

3. What goal in the lives of the investigators should we strive to accomplish with our Church meetings?  (Pres. Packer, "Reverence Invites Revelation")

4. What is the role of music in Church meetings? (Pres. Packer, "Reverence Invites Revelation")

5. Why should religiously oriented music in popular or in concert-like styles be avoided in sacrament meetings? (Pres. Packer, "Reverence Invites Revelation")

6. What is the purpose of special musical numbers (e.g. choirs and solos) in our meetings? (Elder Oaks, "Worship through Music")


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