307: If You Confuse, You Lose: Making Faith Easy to Live By

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🗓️ 24 February 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Have you ever felt overwhelmed by all the things you're supposed to remember or do when it comes to faith? In this episode, Corrine and Neil dive into why keeping gospel teachings simple is so important—especially when guiding kids and teens. They share personal stories, including a high school moment that left Corrine spiraling over a confusing phrase (“the devil is in the details”), and how Neil’s recent seminary lesson reinforced the power of focusing on core principles. Together, they explore the shift from rigid religious rules to a principle-based approach, the power of repetition in learning (spoiler: there’s a 50 States song involved), and why the most life-changing messages—whether in faith, business or even politics—are always the simplest ones. If you've ever worried about teaching your kids the "right" way or felt like faith is too complex to grasp, this conversation will bring so much clarity and encouragement.

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0:00.0	Yesterday I gave a talk in a neighboring congregation, so not where we go to church, but in one close by.
0:19.2	And I gave it on the subject of like teaching your children simple doctrine like
0:26.3	the simple doctrine of Jesus Christ and we don't necessarily have to spend the whole time on
0:31.2	just that but I think the idea of being really simple and keeping things as simple as possible when teaching people
0:41.8	is a really interesting concept and really important.
0:46.1	And I started my talk off with this just kind of funny incident that happened when I was in
0:53.3	high school.
0:56.4	And I still distinctly remember how this all played out so I went to Sunday school one week and the teacher used I don't
1:03.4	even remember what he was teaching but he said something like you know guys the devil's in the
1:09.5	details and I remember being like, what does that
1:13.3	even mean? And I chewed on it for weeks. Like, I went home and I just thought about it for the longest
1:18.3	time, like, the devil's in the details. The devil's in the details. Like, what does that mean? Like,
1:21.7	I don't understand that. Like, he is manipulating every detail of our life or he i just i didn't understand it and for
1:29.9	anyone who doesn't know it just means like the hard parts like the you know the almost like the
1:36.0	enemy or whatever is in those little details like getting the big things done is like the
1:41.7	challenges in the details is kind of what that means it It doesn't literally mean that Satan is in the details.
1:47.3	But anyway, a few weeks later, I was sitting in seminary, which is like our high school
1:54.3	version of, you know, religion class once a week.
1:59.3	And or was it once a week?
2:02.6	No, it was more than once a week. I don't know. I think it was a few times a week like we had an A B schedule so it was like on every A day or whatever so
2:07.4	two to three times a week and I was sitting in seminary and the teacher was like you know guys
2:12.7	God is in the details of your lives and I remember being so confused like oh my gosh the devil is in the details and now God is in the details of your lives. And I remember being so confused. Like, oh my gosh, the devil is in the
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