S4 E 10 My Soul, My Role, and My worth with Religion Dean (D&C 18)
The Scriptures Are Real
Kerry Muhlestein
4.8 • 539 Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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In this episode Kerry and Scott Esplin explore the background of Section 18, along with its meaning. They talk about what it teaches us about ourselves and how it should affect the way we see and interact with everyone around us. They also talk about repentance and how we should see it. They delve into what this section teaches us about apostles and the role of apostles.
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| 0:00.0 | I love the 12 apostles. I love the first presidency. I love prophets, seers, and revelators. |
| 0:05.6 | But they bear witness of him. And salvation is in Christ. It's not in a living, mortal person. |
| 0:11.9 | It's in Christ. As much as I love and want to emphasize prophetic teachings, prophets point to Christ. |
| 0:18.6 | The worth of souls is because of Christ. |
| 0:31.0 | Hello, and welcome to the Scriptures A Real podcast. This is the podcast where we talk about things |
| 0:35.6 | that have made the scriptures become real to us, and that helps us draw more power out of them, and we need all the help we can get. |
| 0:55.8 | I'm your host, Kerry Mielstein, and I'm so happy to have with us today. A dear friend and colleague of mine, this is Scott S. Welcome, Scott. Hi, Carrie. Thank you. It's good to be here. Well, thanks for being with us. I'll tell everyone just a little bit about Scott, and we'll let him tell us more. |
| 0:55.8 | Scott and I have been friends for a with us. I'll tell everyone just a little bit about Scott, and we'll let him tell us more. |
| 1:03.2 | Scott and I have been friends for a long time. We actually came into BYU and our full-time positions together at the same time. |
| 1:12.9 | He's currently serving as the dean of religious education. He has also served as executive secretary to general authorities, and I think you're on the correlation committee right now. |
| 1:14.4 | Is that right? |
| 1:14.6 | Just released, until just recently. |
| 1:16.5 | Okay, wonderful. |
| 1:18.2 | And specializes in church history. |
| 1:22.5 | And some of my favorite work he's done has been on Navu and what's happened with Navu since the |
| 1:28.9 | Saints left and up to our day, wonderful stuff. But anyway, tell us more about yourself, Scott. |
| 1:34.0 | Thanks, Kerry. It's good to be with you. As you mentioned, we came together more than 20 years ago |
| 1:39.8 | to BeYU, I think, and about that long. And I teach Doctor and Covenants in Church History on campus. I teach foundations of the restoration class and Dr. and Covenants courses as well as others. And just love the Dr. Convance and look forward to studying it with you. Well, let's jump in. Today is a fantastic section. It's not very often. I think we get it again next week, but it's not very often that we get |
| 2:01.4 | just one section to study. But that's because there's a lot in this section and a lot of history |
| 2:08.3 | going forward and backwards with this. Where would you like to go? You know, I think it's always |
| 2:13.2 | wise or often a good place to start is just what's the context, what's the background to the |
| 2:17.8 | section, what was going on then in the church and before we look at the doctrine and principles |
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