Welcome to the Scripture Study Project, our podcast dedicated to helping you discover the scriptures

in a fresh way, invest your mind and heart into your personal study, and connect to God

in your everyday life.

We are your hosts, Zach and Christa Horton,

and we are excited to study with you this week,

sections 51 through 57 in the Doctrine and Covenants.

These are exciting sections because the church is on the move again,

even though we just barely got to Kirtland a couple of weeks ago.

We are now moving to Missouri, or at least some are moving to Missouri.

And the expansion, the growth, the ongoing revelation that comes is almost staggering in the

coming weeks and months.

And this is the beginning of that unfolding and expanding.

So some exciting sections that we get to study.

Yeah, and I think it's fun to see how the revelation

and how the people respond and change and grow from what's happening here.

It's, yeah, exciting is what you described it as well. And it's fitting for us. I mean, we've mentioned this probably ad nauseum, but the scriptures,

I think intentionally as we study them with our own personal situations and contexts in mind,

the scriptures mirror or can mirror what's happening in our own

lives as we find relevance in them. And so as we see early church members trying to adjust to all

of this outside influence that's being thrown at them, we also face similar wrestles as we try and grapple with what the

world will look like for us, for our families and for our neighbors, our communities, because

of what the outside world has thrown at us with the pandemic and with everything that's

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