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Welcome to Talking Scripture, I'm Mike.

And I'm Bryce.

And today we're going to be in Doctrine and Covenants, twenty through twenty two.

And this is right around April six.

This is the organization of the church, isn't it, Bryce?

Yes.

And we can consider the section twenty, kind of like a constitution.

You can almost break it down into different articles and say article one, article two, much

like the U.S. Constitution and just go back to the basics.

And I think one of the reasons for doing so is that bless our hearts.

We have a tendency as members of the church to sometimes go beyond and do more or sometimes

we do less, sometimes in our zeal to serve and our enthusiasm to fulfill our calling.

Sometimes we go beyond what we should be doing and we forget the very basics of the church.

Much like Elder Ballard once said, occasionally we find some who become so energetic in their

church service that their lives become unbalanced.

They start believing that the programs they administer are more important than the people

they serve.

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