45. In what way is our church the true church?

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🗓️ 2 May 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

This episode is part of our Big Questions project, and in it, we discuss our Big Question #12 - “In what way is our church the true church?”

For this conversation, we asked Patrick Mason to come back on — Patrick is the Leonard Arrington Chair of Mormon History and Culture at Utah State University. Bill Turnbull, one of the founders of Faith Matters, also joined us for the conversation.

We know that this is a really big question for many Latter-day Saints, ourselves included — and if you’d like to explore more of what we’ve published on this subject, you can check out our website here:

https://faithmatters.org/the-big-questions-project/

Thanks so much, as always, for listening, and we hope you enjoy the conversation.

4:22 Is the concept of a “one true church” still relevant?

12:00 The problem with total exclusivity

18:12 In what sense is the Church true?

27:18 The Body of Christ today

31:29 A Methodist reads the Book of Mormon

38:01 The Gift of Saving Ordinances

43:58 Why the Church is as True as the Gospel

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0:00.0	Hey everybody. Before we get started I just wanted to tell you about a new book from
0:04.4	Faith Matters Publishing. It's called Restoration by Patrick Mason. When we started the
0:08.8	Faith Matters Publishing project one of our goals was to explore what
0:11.9	restoration really means as the church moves into its third century
0:15.2	and that's exactly what Patrick does. If you're like me and you've ever wondered how restoring Israel
0:19.9	can be relevant to you, you've got to read this book. Patrick shows how as members of the
0:24.4	church it's our mission to truly lead out in bringing wholeness and healing to the
0:28.2	marginalized and the vulnerable. This book absolutely lit a fire for me and it has
0:32.2	totally changed the way I view my own engagement with the church and with the world.
0:36.0	I really can't recommend this book strongly enough.
0:38.5	It's the kind of book you want everyone you know to be reading to so that you can talk about it. So you can pick up a copy for
0:43.9	yourself or for your friends and family at Desert Book, Amazon, Audible, and Apple
0:48.3	Books. Okay that's it on the book for now but we'll be sharing a lot more in the
0:51.5	near future. Thanks as always and here's the episode.
0:54.0	Hi everybody, this is Tim Chavez from Faith Matters.
1:00.0	This episode is a part of our Big Questions project and in it we discuss our big question number 12 in what way is our church the true church for this conversation we asked Patrick Mason to come back on
1:12.3	Patrick is the Leonard Errington chair of Mormon history and culture at Utah State University.
1:16.5	Bill Turnbull, one of the founders of Faith Matters, also joined us for this conversation.
1:21.0	We know that this is a really big question for many Latter-day Saints, ourselves included.
1:25.0	And if you'd like to explore more of what we've published on this subject,
1:28.0	you can head to faithmatters.org and click on big questions.
1:31.0	Thanks so much as always for listening and we hope you enjoy the conversation.
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