Posts Tagged ‘ temple recommend ’

Who determines worthiness in the temple recommend interview?  The bishop?  The individual?  The questions? Other methods of discernment?  Can the bishop rightly withhold a temple recommend based on nothing more than a hunch or the Spirit even if probing reveals no wrong answers? I recently read a blog post written by a group of ex-Mormon [...]

Love it or hate it, for temple-going Mormons your recommend has a shelf life of 24 months before you are assumed unworthy unless you declare otherwise in person. Discuss.

There is a man in your ward who moved in about a year ago. He is separated from his wife and is working through a divorce. He tells you that they have been “emotionally” divorced for many years, and that his grown children have wondered why he took so long to finalize the divorce.  For [...]

A man in your ward has come to you for his temple recommend renewal. Usually your counselors do renewal interviews, but this brother asked you personally, and you had a few minutes. He answers all the questions correctly, but in talking afterwards, he tells you that he does not believe the Book of Mormon to [...]

There is a common concern among those who have experienced doubts in the church as to how much they should disclose about their doubts, to whom, and what the consequences of that disclosure might be.  A recent internet discussion involving someone whose temple recommend was withheld for sharing her struggles and doubts with a well-meaning [...]

The Slippery Slope:  Ask the Bishop!  Poll #9 A sister asks to visit with you. She is very distraught. Once in your office, she tells you that last week she drank a can of a new type of fruit juice, and after she drank it, she read the ingredients and saw that it had “Green [...]

Today’s guest post comes from Cornponebread. I started this out as a “Mormons vs. Latter-day Saints” article.  There had been a few things lately which bothered me about those who practice the “Culture of Mormonism” as opposed to those humble seekers of truth;  the followers of the true doctrine of the restored Gospel.  What I [...]