Gospel Doctrine - Lesson 1 - We Are Responsible For Our Own Learning

1. We Are Responsible For Our Own Learning
Come Fo
ll
ow Me - New Testament 2023
December 26 - January 1

2. Introduction - An Invitation to
Deepen Faith in the Savior
• Four years ago, we began
home-centered, church-
supported learning with
“Come, Follow Me”
• What challenges has the world
faced in the last four years?
• What challenges have you
faced personally in the last
four years?

3. “We live in a complex world. We
live in complex families and
situations. And coming to the
Lord is the best way to have
solutions for these complexities.
He [Jesus] has the truth. He is
the truth, and as we learn from
Him and try to follow His
teachings, we will
fi
nd peace in
this complex situation that we
live in…and we can
fi
nd solutions
that will bless us individually and
as families.”
- Brother Milton Camargo
First Counselor in the General Sunday School
Presidency
Church Newsroom, December 2022

4. • How has your your study of the
scriptures over the last four
years using the “Come, Follow
Me” curriculum deepened your
faith in the Savior?

5. Making This Year’s Study the Best
Yet
• John 1:38
• How do you want this year of
study to look different from the
last four years?
• What do you want your
relationship with Jesus to look
like?
What Seek Ye?

6. “Ask and it shall be given
you; seek, and ye shall
fi
nd;
knock and it shall be opened
unto you.” Matthew 7:7
Invitation:
• Consider writing down
your goals for this
upcoming year using the
four categories from the
Youth Guidebook.
• Put it somewhere that you
will see it often.
• Ask the Lord for help in
reaching your goals.

7. Why Do Ye
Seek Me?
• A relationship with Jesus often
starts with a need
• The “what” we are seeking for
becomes more powerful when
there is a why
• “Divine discontent” was a phrase
coined by Neal A. Maxwell.
• Divine discontent comes when
we compare “what we are to what
we have the power to become.”

8. “Jesus’s miracles often begin with a
recognition of want, need, failure, or
inadequacy. Remember the loaves and
the
fi
shes? Each of the Gospel writers
tells how Jesus miraculously fed the
thousands who followed Him. But the
story begins with the disciples’
recognition of their lack; they
realized they had only “
fi
ve barley
loaves, and two small
fi
shes: but what
are they among so many?”. The
disciples were right: they didn’t have
enough food, but they gave what they
had to Jesus, and then He provided
the miracle.”
- Michelle D. Craig
First Counselor Young Women’s Presidency
Divine Discontent, October 2018

9. • What is your want, need, failure, or
inadequacy?
• Invitation: As we study the New
Testament and the characteristics
of Christ, invite Him into your life
and ask for his help
Remember:
• Divine discontent leads to humility
and action to invite the Savior into
our lives and ask for His help.
• Divine discontent is not self-pity or
discouragement that comes from
making comparisons in which we
always come up short.

10. How do we
seek Him?
• Moroni 10:3-5
• Read
• Ponder
• Ask
• With real intent
• With faith
• How did Joseph Smith seek
Jesus?
• How does President Nelson
seek Him?

11. “Today, I would like to speak
about how we can draw into our
lives the power of our Lord and
Master, Jesus Christ. We begin
by learning about Him. ‘It is
impossible for us to be saved in
ignorance.’ The more we know
about the Savior’s ministry and
mission — the more we
understand His doctrine and
what He did for us — the more
we know that He can provide
the power that we need for our
lives.”
- President Russel M. Nelson
Drawing the Power of Jesus Christ into Our
Lives, April 2017

12. “The truth is that you must own your
own conversion. No one else can do it for
you. I plead with you to take charge of
your own testimony. Work for it. Own it.
Care for it. Nurture it so that it will grow.
Feed it truth. Don’t pollute it with the
false philosophies of unbelieving men
and women and then wonder why your
testimony is waning. Engage in daily,
earnest, humble prayer. Nourish yourself
in the words of ancient and modern
prophets. Ask the Lord to teach you how
to hear Him better. If you have questions
- and I hope you do - seek answers with
the fervent desire to believe. Your sincere
questions asked in faith, will always lead
to greater faith and more knowledge.”
- President Russel M. Nelson
Choices for Eternity, May 2022

13. • What will you do to make
your personal scripture study
more meaningful this year?

14. We Are All Learners & Teachers
• The Introductory Materials in the
New Testament 2023 - Come, Follow
Me for Individuals and Families is a
wonderful resource for:
• Improving your personal
scripture study
• Improving your family scripture
study
• Ideas for teaching young children
• Using sacred music in gospel
learning
• We are all teachers either through our church callings or in our families

15. • What things have worked well for you as you have incorporated
CFM into your family scripture study?
• Come Follow Me App
• Latter-Day Kids (You Tube)
• Reading directly from the scriptures with everyone taking turns

16. For those feeling overwhelmed
with
fi
nding time to read the
assigned scripture block and
other material, Brother Camargo
o
ff
ered some encouragement:
“We should just continue to do
our best. I’ve never been in a race
reading the scriptures, never ever.
I don’t have a target of reading so
many pages in a day or chapters.
However, the Book of Mormon, I
read every day until I
fi
nd
something that touches my soul.
And that’s enough for me that
day, because then that stays in my
mind and in my heart during the
whole day.”

17. “Each member of the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-Day Saints has an
individual responsibility to learn and
live the Lord’s teachings and to receive
by proper authority the ordinances of
salvation and exaltation. We should not
expect the Church as an organization to
teach or tell us everything we need to
know and do to become devoted
disciples and endure valiantly to the
end. Rather, our personal responsibility
is to learn what we should learn, to live
as we know we should live, and to
become who the Master would have us
become. And out homes are the
ultimate setting for learning, living, and
becoming.”
-Elder David A. Bednar
Prepared to Receive Every Needful Thing
April 2019