He said, “The question should not be, How can The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints be the true Church with its alleged angels and visions? Rather the question should be, How can any church today claim to be Christ’s true Church unless it has angels and visions-just as was the case in Christ’s original Church, just as it is revealed in His blueprint?” Among those fruits, he said, are being healthy as a people, miracles and gifts of the Spirit, and divine visions and visitations from angels. “Otherwise, how does one answer the difficult question: what about those who died without the opportunity to be baptized?”Įlder Callister suggested that the fruits of Christ’s Church are an element of His blueprint. He said Christ’s blueprint is very specific regarding ordinances that are to be performed in His Church, particularly baptism. “Therefore, each of these offices is present in our Church today.” He said the current Church of Jesus Christ should have the same organization that existed in Christ’s original Church, subject to revelatory changes. “In so doing he might find some churches that had some similarities-a teaching or two that overlapped, an ordinance that is the same, some offices that bear common names, but he will only find one church, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, that matches the blueprint in every material respect.” “If one desired to discover Christ’s Church today he would want to match the spiritual blueprint found in the New Testament against every Christian church in the world until he discovered a church that matched the blueprint-organization for organization, teaching for teaching, ordinance for ordinance, fruit for fruit, and revelation for revelation,” he said. Occasionally, Christ’s blueprint requires a “change order” in accommodating changing needs, and that is provided for in the principle of continuing divine revelation, Elder Callister said. The devotional originated from the Marriott Center on the campus of Brigham Young University and was broadcast live over the Church satellite system, the Internet, and other media.ĭrawing an analogy from the construction blueprint for a house, Elder Callister said, “In a similar way Christ built a home to best accommodate the spiritual needs of His children. What it does mean is that this is the only church that has all the truth that has been revealed thus far in this dispensation, the only church that has the ordinances necessary for exaltation, and the only church that has the priesthood of God to perform those ordinances with divine validity.” “It does not mean that other churches do not render good, for they render much good. “It does not mean that other churches do not have some truth, for certainly they do,” he said. “What does this mean?” asked Elder Callister. Callister of the Presidency of the Seventy on Sunday, January 12, as he addressed this year's first Church Educational System devotional.Įarly in his talk, he cited a well-known scriptural passage that identifies The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as “the only true and living church upon the face of the whole earth” ( D&C 1:30). The spiritual blueprint of the Church of Jesus Christ was the subject of remarks by Elder Tad R.
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