March 24th Lesson

Being a More Christian Christian 

Our lesson this week in Relief Society came from Robert D. Hales talk from last conference "Being a More Christian Christian. Below is a link to his talk which I encourage everyone to reread/relisten to; it is so great.
http://www.lds.org/general-conference/2012/10/being-a-more-christian-christian?lang=eng&query=more+christian+christian

What does it me to be a Christian?

Think about this for a minute. What do you think it means to be Christian?
We discussed that it means to...
Take upon the name of Christ
Testify of Him
Know of the divinity of the Godhead and
Follow the example of Christ

We read scripture that show what it means to be Christian.

Matthew 4:18-20
Christ says to follow Him and He will make us fishers of men. Peter and Andrew left everything and followed Christ.

Mark 8:34
Christ asks us to deny ourselves (by putting off the natural man) and follow Him.

Mosiah 5:2
We are asked to do good continually.

Even if we falter in following the Lord, we can always return to Him. He will never leave us.

We sang hymn 270 "I'll Go Where You Want Me to Go" which as great incite on what it means to be Christian.
"I'll go where you want me to go,
I'll say what you want me to say,
I'll be what you want me to be."

The Lord needs us to be His valiant Christians. Elder Hale gives us ways to become more Christian by strengthening our Christlike attributes. These include:
Love
Faith 
Sacrifice
Caring
Service
Patience
Peace
Forgiveness
Conversion
Endurance to the End
By working on these attributes we can come closer to the Lord, learn to follow Him, and prepare ourselves for the Celestial Kingdom.