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Help others, LDS urged

Worldly Permisiveness? Ok, let's return to a time when everyone understood their social location! The LDS wants women to accept the Proclamation etc. It is, "the church" that needs to change. Daughters or Sons...we need to change this. Maybe we should all become Methodists...at least they have become more progressive and mainstream.

It was a privilege to hear these talks over the weekend and what a beacon of light and hope in a world with so many mixed values. It made me want to be better and gave me new goals to become more Christlike. Like Jacob of old noted, "O be wise, what can I can more."

One key phrase all LDS need to her. HELP all neighbors, not just the ones that go to the ward. That should be the real word

He did not forget. The LDS Church teaches to help ALL people.

Judging by most of the posts these days, helping others would equate to a hand-out and the road to socialism.

ruth22......."Maybe we should all become Methodists...at least they have become more progressive and mainstream."
That is EXACTLY the point that was being made. While the rest of society embraces worldly permissiveness and becomes more "progressive and mainstream" .....
WE WILL NOT! We each have different roles, one no better than the other, just different.

Agreed.

'Help Others' is the message from this years LDS conference.

I'm a gay man, would the LDS church help me?

I have seen little effort to date.

Think I'm wrong? Give me an example of the LDS church helping gay and lesbian men/women.

Once again, you demonstrate your complete lack of understanding.

There's a big difference between members of a private organization CHOOSING to share their substance with others who are less fortunate, and the government arbitrarily FORCING them to do it.

Remember, it ain't charity if you're giving away other people's money.

Agreed.

I'm a bank robber, would the LDS church help me?

Give me an example of the LDS church helping rob a bank.

Of course they would; they have helped many gay members who have come to them for help, both temporal and spiritual.

But I suspect your defintion of "help" would be something along the lines of allowing you and your gay buddies to turn the Main Street Plaza in Salt Lake City into the Folsom Street Fair in San Francisco. If that's the case, then no, they won't help you at all.

But by all means, please try to force the issue; there are many naive Mormons who still believe the gay community does not hate them. Seeing half-naked leather-clad men simulating sex acts in front of the temple will go a long way towards dispelling that illusion.

I am sorry President Monson, if you read these comments you will see why it is so difficult for people to follow the teachings of Jesus Christ and take care of the poor, the sick, the people in prison. They are selfish and gready. They resist any effort to do what Christ tells us we need to do.

Even when you tell us to do it.

How sad.

My temple attending sister and her family invited a young gay man to live in their home paying for his food and rejecting any payment so that he could save enough money to move on his own.

Seriously, we don't want you to help us. We just want you to leave us alone.

Yes the LDS Church can help...go to any local bishop and be taught the principals of repentance and then go and do and sin no more.

This is pathetic.. Grow up folks! You all remind me of a kindergarten class. Perhaps it is a kindergarten class after all???

This Conference was one of the most solemn and powerful ones ever. And I listened to all of the talks. Never did the speakers tell us just to serve other LDS. They emphasized the need for service and helping others, regardless of religion or any other determining factors.

They also emphasized that we need to be brave enough to stand up for the Lord's standards, no matter what. We do not follow the world.

The most powerful talk, to me, was the one by Elder Jeffrey R. Holland. If you are a disaffected Mormon, former Mormon or apostate, I admonish you to listen to that talk or read it.

The LDS Church will not become like the rest of the world. Why would you want the Church to become more "progressive"? That's like telling Jesus Christ to "get with the times" and change all of the commandments to suit today's moral sensitivities. The Lord was never one for political correctness. He is eternal. Our modern- day world is not.

President Monson's talk clearly gave hope. There are many ways the Church helps individuals of all types and many ways we can help more.
The reason we get a message of needing to be good neighbors and needing to reach out in GREATER love and kindness is because we have not done so ENOUGH. We are not sufficiently Christlike, loving and so forth.
I will be the first to admit I get angry too often, respond with jabs instead of love and so forth.
The point of these messages is change. As was said by one speaker, the past is no gaurantee of the future. As they say in adds for investments "past performance is no garantee of future results".
We need to apply the same principals in our lives. We need to be more loving, kind and compassionate.

Many feel that the LDS church only help others expecting that they are allowed to try and convert you to their faith.

Many feel that LDS members say one thing and do the other. You offer service to your neighbors but then turn around and try and put them down.

Many people feel that members of the LDS church only like other members of the church. If you are not a member then you are a lesser person. (this can be seen on the school yard with who your kids associate with)

The LDS Church needs to own their perception. It doesn't matter if it is true or not, this how non-members view your church. If you do not like it then change those things that people perceive as wrong with your church.

So while we like the message of service to others, we are very distrustful in the reasons you are offering your service.

You say you want to be left alone. Great! No member of the Church of Jesus Christ forces you to accept their help. However, when the disaster happens, I can bet that you'll be the first in line at the local ward building, for a handout.