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Doctrine & Covenants 20-22 : Dr. Jordan Watkins Part II

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Hank Smith & John Bytheway

Education, Doctrine And Covenants, Hank Smith, Christianity, Courses, Follow Him, Religion & Spirituality, John Bytheway, Follow Me

4.99.9K Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Joseph and his friends officially organized the Church on April 6, 1830, in the Whitmer home. Hank, John, and Dr. Watkins return to discuss the importance of record-keeping in the early Church, the reality of the Lord bringing the Saints along gradually, and how the Prophet grows in understanding for what the Lord has in mind for His people. We, along with Joseph, learn to put aside our prejudices and preconceived notions to help the Lord establish His baptism, his covenants, and His Ch...

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0:00.0

Welcome to part two of this week's podcast.

0:06.0

Well, I had a question about bishops because this isn't something we start to do.

0:11.4

Is this added later when we start getting bishops or was bishops an idea on the original?

0:17.2

And it's okay if we can answer that.

0:18.9

Yeah, somebody probably can.

0:21.0

I can't.

0:22.0

I do know that there are certain things listed here, deacons, for example, that we don't

0:26.4

have a record of a deacon being called until 1831.

0:30.9

So it's also possible.

0:31.9

Of course, chapter, section 18, which we've talked about, 12 disciples, but we don't get

0:36.4

that until 1835.

0:39.4

But yeah, we don't, you know, we don't get our first bishops until Edward Partridge, right?

0:43.7

The next year.

0:45.3

So it's certainly possible that it's anticipating that though, yeah, I don't think it's added,

0:54.0

if it is added later, I don't think it's too much later.

0:56.2

So it's probably just more kind of anticipating.

0:58.5

But again, I think that's an important point, right?

1:00.7

They may be looking around being like, who's the bishops?

1:03.8

We don't have any bishops.

1:04.8

What is a bishops?

1:05.8

I guess it says that here a little bit, it gives us some sense, but they don't really

1:09.6

find out what that means until you get Edward Partridge called his bishops and you get

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