Come Follow Me
Week 4: Doctrine and Covenants 3-5
No one’s perfect. “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God,” preached the apostle Paul (Romans 3:23). Alma the Younger taught his son Helaman that “the Lord cannot look upon sin with the least degree of allowance” (Alma 45:16). Taken together, these...
Week 3: Doctrine and Covenants 2; Joseph Smith—History 1:27-65
On the evening of September 21, 1823, Joseph Smith felt burdened for the sins of his teenage life. He was seventeen and regretted his “many foolish errors,” “the weakness of youth,” “the foibles of human nature,” and the “diverse” sins he had committed that were...
Week 2: January 4-10, Joseph Smith—History 1:1-26
After introducing section 1 of the Doctrine and Covenants in week 1, Come Follow Me goes back to the beginning of the Church’s history and takes up Joseph Smith’s account of his early religious experiences, especially his First Vision, using Joseph Smith—History...
Week 1: December 28—January 3, Doctrine and Covenants 1
Week 1 of Come Follow Me does not start at the beginning of Church history. Instead, it begins with Doctrine and Covenants 1, which is the first section of that book of scripture but not the earliest section received. Here is what happened. After the Church was...