Elder Uchtdorf, Mormon Apostle, Addresses Sunday Session: You Are My Hands
Mormon General Conference April 2010
Mormon Apostle, Dieter Uchtdorf
Abstract of his Mormon Message to all the World
The Savior reaches out to heal, lift, and bless. He never talked down to people. It is what He would be doing if He were living among us today. It is what we should be doing as His disciples. As we emulate His perfect example, our hands can become His hands, our eyes can become His eyes, our hearts can become his heart. …Let us extend a welcoming hand and bestow upon our members a measure of humanity so they may feel at last that they have found home.
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Mormons Gather
Mormon apostle, Dieter Uchtdorf, addressed the world and also specifically the members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who gathered in their homes, in Salt Lake City at the Conference Center and in meetinghouses worldwide, given its 14 million membership.
Mormon Apostle Addresses the World: Mormons Are Encouraged to be Compassionate as Christ (Mormons are Christian disciples.)
I am listening and blogging live. The feeling emanating from Elder Uchtdorf is a warm invitation to be a disciple of Christ in the weightier matters–in judgment and mercy. He is reminding us that we are “called to support and heal” rather than condemn. ”It is unworthy of us as Christians,” reminds Elder Uchtdorf, ” to think that those who are suffering deserve their suffering.” We all have sinned; we all need mercy, he affirms.
Each person is a VIP to our Heavenly Father. Elder Uchtdorf is asking us to seek that spirit of compassion and love that reflects the pure love of Christ, and then to act on that feeling. We need to do more, he says, than to sing and write about it, more than teach about it and delegate the work to others. The Savior taught but “showed us how to succor the weak,” to lift the hands that hang down. He knows how to minister perfectly. Those He uplifts become greater people as a result. Should we not do the same–in our homes, our wards, our communities, our nations.
We can obsess about long lists and the law, but without this love for God the Father and our fellowman, we are the “form of His Church without the substance,” he declares. It is that love that led the Savior to the Garden of Gethsemane. That love is the fountain of hope. As we extend that kind of love, our own spiritual growth occurs.
Those the Savior reproached were those who thought they were superior to others because of position, wealth, influence, or perceived righteousness. But the one who received positive recognition from the Savior was not the one who boasted of his actions to fast, and comply with specific tenets of the gospel, but the one who struck his breast in acknowledgement of his sins and need for Christ’s mercy. That calls upon each of us to recall our need for meekness and our own need for the atonement.
Elder Uchtdorf called upon us to emulate the Savior in our own sphere as He would encourage by His spirit.
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