Experiencing Excommunication with Perri Correia and Rory Mele
All In
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🗓️ 27 February 2019
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Excommunication. It's something we don't talk about much within the Church but what motivates someone to return to Church membership after excommunication? What is the purpose of excommunication from the perspective of those who have experienced it? This is what we discuss with two men who have experienced excommunication firsthand on this week's episode of "All In."
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| 0:00.0 | In an article written by President M. Russell Ballard titled, |
| 0:04.0 | A Chance to Start Over, Church Disciplinary Counsels, and the Restoration of Blessings, |
| 0:09.6 | he wrote, |
| 0:11.2 | To members and leaders of the church who know of a brother or a sister who has been |
| 0:16.0 | disfellowshipped or acts communicated, love him or her without judging. |
| 0:21.4 | Be sensitive and thoughtful without prying. |
| 0:24.2 | Be warm and caring without being condescending. |
| 0:27.5 | Be forgiving and forgetful. The Lord has said, |
| 0:31.2 | Behold, he who has repented of his sins the same as forgiven, |
| 0:35.6 | and I the Lord remember them no more. |
| 0:38.8 | Can we be justified in doing any less? |
| 0:42.4 | On today's episode, we will be talking with two brothers who were ex-communicated from the church. |
| 0:48.5 | One, Rory Melee recently returned to the restored church through baptism and confirmation |
| 0:54.0 | after years of semi-activity and a year of ex-communication. |
| 0:58.7 | He is currently waiting to apply for the restoration of blessing ordinance this spring. |
| 1:04.0 | The other, Perry Corea, was recently ex-communicated and has begun his effort to return to church membership. |
| 1:11.6 | This is All-in, an LDS living podcast where we ask the question, |
| 1:16.2 | what does it really mean to be All-in the gospel of Jesus Christ? |
| 1:20.6 | I'm Morgan Jones and I am so grateful to Rory and Perry for their willingness to come and have |
| 1:27.0 | a conversation with me today about something that we don't often talk a lot about in the church. |
| 1:32.8 | And I want to give a little bit of background about how this podcast episode came to be. |
| 1:37.9 | So Perry served his mission with my brother, Spencer, and one day I was working in the temple, |
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