Welcome to Part 2, Christmas with President Bonnie H. Corden.

When they came out with the Living Christ, I love the author of that, or the person who drafted

the first one, and then we had all 15 apostles and prophets at the time, sign it, was

President Nelson. In one of his talks, he said, much like when he said, I urge you

to study the living Christ, he said, I urge you to devote time each week. Then he says,

for the rest of your life, to increase your understanding of the atonement of Jesus Christ.

When the prophets and apostles say, I urge you, there is a little level of intensity that goes up.

What does it look like then for Bonnie in my crazy world to study and understand the atonement?

Every Wednesday, I try to study with a lens understand the atonement. Every Wednesday, I tried to study with a lens

of the atonement. I realized that the living Christ, whole document is the atonement. It was an aha to me,

but I'm sure for everyone else, they're like, welcome, Bonnie. That's how it is. What was really fun is, at I thought, well, it calls out, doctrinally, the atonement in three spots in the Living Christ. Then I started to take each sentence. How does this apply to the atonement? What does this mean? Oh, I have 14 different references to the atonement. And then I would look at another thing. I'm like, oh, I've got

15. And then 16 and 17, you know, now I'm like 29, 30. And I'm like, okay, the document is about that

glorious gift of the atonement of Jesus Christ to us. It was a study. So that's an invitation.

Take the living Christ and see what does it

look like through the lens of the atonement. Even if you just take the last one, we bear testimony

as duly ordained apostles that Jesus is the living Christ, the immortal son of God. He is the great

Emmanuel who stands today on the right hand of his father.

He is the light, the life, and the hope of the world. His way is the path that leads to happiness

in this life and eternal life in the world to come. So you say, okay, if you just took that one paragraph

and broke it up, what does it look like if you think about the Atonement? Jesus is the living Christ.

Christ is not merely a historical figure. He is alive. And because he lives, the Atonement continues in power, reach, and effect today.

The resurrection of Silden completed the Atonement, proving that Christ overcame both physical

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