This document discusses building Christ-centered relationships. It explains that having a Christ-centered identity improves our relationship with God and increases our power and abilities. However, Satan uses lies and deception to destroy our perception of our identity and blind us from discerning truth. We are called to seek God, love Him, and take upon us the name of Christ. Having an honest understanding of ourselves as children of God can help us defend against Satan's attacks and strengthen our relationships.

1. BUILDING CHRIST CENTERED
RELATIONSHIPS

3. And again, verily I say
unto you, I command you
again to build a house to
my name, even in this
place, that you may prove
yourselves unto me that
ye are faithful in all things
whatsoever I command
you, that I may bless you,
and crown you with
honor, immortality, and
eternal life.
-D&C
124:55

5. Today’s Purpose
 Discuss how having a Christ-centered
identity improves our relationship with our
Heavenly Father
 Review what specific tactics Satan uses to
destroy our perception of our identity
 How having a Christ-centered identity
increases our power and abilities

6. Everything about our lives is an
indicator of our Father’s respect for
us, that He recommended and
selected us for now, when the
stakes are so high, when His
kingdom is being established once
and for all, never again to be taken
from the earth. He chose us to run
the last leg of the relay, when He
needs His strongest, fittest runners.
He believes in us.
Sheri Dew

7. Acts 7:27-29
That they should seek the Lord, if
haply they might feel after him, and find
him, though he be not far from every one
of us:
For in him we live, and move, and
have our being; as certain also of your own
poets have said, For we are also his
offspring.
Forasmuch then as we are the
offspring of God, we ought not to think that

8. What Is Our Divine Role as
Children of God?
 Abraham 3:22, 24-25
Now the Lord had shown unto me,
Abraham, the intelligence that were organized
before the world was; and among all these
there were many of the noble and great ones;
And there stood on among them that was like
unto God, and he said unto those who were
with him: We will go down, for there is space
there, and we will take of these materials, and
we will make an earth whereon these may
dwell; And we will prove them herewith, to see
if they will do all things whatsoever the Lord
their God shall command them;

9. Matthew 22:36-40
Master, which is the great
commandment in the law? Jesus said unto
him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with
all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with
all thy mind. This is the first and great
commandment. And the second is like unto
it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
On these two commandments hang all the
law and the prophets.

10. Mosiah 5:7-9
And now, because of the covenant which ye
have made ye shall be called the children of Christ, his
sons, and his daughters; for behold, this day he hath
spiritually begotten you; for ye say that your hearts are
changed through faith on his name; therefore, ye are
born of him and have become his sons and his
daughters.
And under this head ye are made free, and
there is no other head whereby ye can be made free.
There is no other name given whereby salvation cometh;
therefore, I would that ye should take upon you the
name of Christ, all you that have entered into the
covenant with God that ye should be obedient unto the
end of your lives.
And it shall come to pass that whosoever
doeth this shall be found at the right hand of God, for

11. John 14:6
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way,
the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto
the Father, but by me.
For there is one God, and one mediator
between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
1 Timothy 2:5

12. 1 Nephi 13:26-27, 29
And after they go forth by the hand of the twelve apostles
of the Lamb, from the Jews unto the Gentiles, thou seest the
formation of that great and abominable church, which is most
abominable above all other churches; for behold, they have taken
away from the gospel of the Lamb many parts which are plain and
most precious; and also many covenants of the Lord have they taken
away.
And all this have they done that they might pervert the
right ways of the Lord, that they might blind the eyes and harden the
hearts of the children of men.
And after these plain and precious things were taken away
it goeth forth unto all the nations of the Gentiles; and after it goeth
forth unto all the nations of the Gentiles, yea, even across the many
waters which thou hast seen with the Gentiles which have gone forth
out of captivity, thou seest—because of the many plain and precious
things which have been taken out of the book, which were plain unto
the understanding of the children of men, according to the plainness
which is in the Lamb of God—because of these things which are taken
away out of the gospel of the Lamb, an exceedingly great many do
stumble, yea, insomuch that Satan hath great power over them.

13. 1 Nephi 14:1
And it shall come to pass, that if the
Gentiles shall hearken unto the Lamb of
God in that day that he shall manifest
himself unto them in word, and also in
power, in very deed, unto the taking away
of their stumbling blocks—

14. What tools does Satan use to
destroy our relationships?
 Moses 4:4-5
And he became Satan, yea, even the devil,
the father of all lies, to deceive and to blind
men, and to lead them captive at his will,
even as many as would not hearken unto
my voice. And now the serpent was more
subtle than any beast of the field which I,
the Lord God, had made.

15. God wants a powerful people,
and He has made it possible for
us to have access to His power,
for He never intended us to face
the perils of mortality alone,
having only our own strength,
wisdom, and power to draw
upon.
-From God Wants a Powerful
People
Sheri Dew

16. Satan’s Tools &
Deceive Blind
-To make an
untrue statement
Lies
-D&C
93:28,36-37,39
-Elder Busche
Quote

17. The issue is truth, my dear brothers
and sisters, and the only way to find
truth is through uncompromising
self-education toward self-honesty to
see the original “real me,” the child of
God, in its innocence and potential in
contrast to the influence from the
other part of me, “the flesh,” with its
selfish desires and foolishness. Only
in that state of pure honesty are we
able to see truth in its complete
dimension. Honesty may not be
everything, but everything is nothing
without honesty. In its final state,
honesty is a gift of the Spirit through
which the true disciples of Christ feel
the force to bear testimony of the
truth in such a powerful way that it
penetrates the very core of our
existence.
”Truth Is the
F. Enzio Busche
Emeritus Seventy

18. Satan’s Tools &
-To fail to
fulfill
Deceives Blinds
-To make an
untrue statement
Lies
-Lacking in
Direction
-Unable to
Unwilling to
Discern or Judge
-D&C
93:28,36-37,39
-Elder Busche
Quote
-Deuteronomy
31:6
-John 14:16-18
-Isaiah 42:
16,20,23
-Moroni 7:46-47

19. The solutions to life's
problems are always gospel
solutions. Not only are
answers found in Christ, but
so is the power, the gift, the
bestowal, the miracle of
giving and receiving those
answers. In this matter of
love, no doctrine could be
more encouraging to us
than that.
“How Do I
Jeffrey R. Holland
Quorum of the Twelve Apostles

20. This Week’s Invitation
 Think of one or two ways that Satan specifically
attacks you?
 How can you specifically protect/defend
yourself from those attacks?
 Find one or two ways
to center Christ in to
your personal view
of yourself.
Practice doing so…
-To fail to fulfill
Deceives Blinds
-To make an
untrue statement
Lies
-Lacking in Direction
-Unable to Unwilling
to Discern or Judge
-D&C
93:28,36-37,39
-Elder Busche Quote
-Deuteronomy 31:6
-John 14:16-18
-Isaiah 42: 16,20,23