When you want to look smart in Sunday school, if you want your friends to think you're cool,

when you want to seem wise and not a fool, it's Christy's Corner.

So in part one of the Word of Wisdom, we talked a little bit about the historical context of when Joseph Smith received the Word of Wisdom.

And in this podcast, we want to talk a little bit about its progression from 1833 till today.

All right.

Well, I think it's first important to understand that in the early church, they didn't have the same kind of system of counsel and of punishment for lack of a

better term that we have today. And we all have just recently seen the terminologies and the

ways that church councils have changed. I mean, moving away from terminologies and the ways that church councils have changed.

I mean,

moving away from terminologies like excommunication to withdrawal of fellowship and

things like that.

But we have a lot of varied levels of response.

I think one of the things would probably strike members of the church the most

if they were reading their early Latter-day St. History was how easily people got excommunicated from the church.

And I mean super easy.

Probably the guy that I feel the worst for, and you know, I've got a soft spot in my heart,

is a man who was excommunicated because he was

frequently falling asleep in meetings. And I feel like I can relate to him. I feel like, you know what?

Probably it was just not a very good lesson. I mean, come on, there's got to be a part on both sides.

Now, to us, that sounds ridiculously harsh.

Like, it sounds like, uh, when did I join, you know, this, this, you know,

repressive communist state regime, you know, I thought this was, was Jesus's church.

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