Tom Christofferson: The Healing Power of Charity

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Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 13 January 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

What if there is power in a Christlike attribute we have heard about our entire lives but have barely scratched the surface of understanding? In his new book, “A Better Heart,” Tom Christofferson writes, “The gift of charity is enormous in conception, its effect and meaning eternal. And yet, it is also small and intimate and personal.” On this week’s episode, we explore charity and how it has the power to give us all better hearts.

“It’s that opportunity to be able now to simply be an instrument in His hands—to transmit as purely as we possibly can His affection, His knowledge, His intimate awareness of every individual, and then to strengthen them in their faith and then help them have hope.”

Show Notes

2:34- London with the Checketts and Missionaries
5:47- “Let It Be You”
9:31- Seeking to Understand
13:10- A Righteous Mother
17:06- The Powerful Gift of Seeing Someone
18:37- More Used Would I Be
23:24- The Connection Between Blessings and Commandments
28:53- Luxuriate in the Feeling of Christ’s Love
32:02- Rooting Out Discouragement and Despair
34:46- "Communal Salvation”
39:50- Personal Power to Endure
43:59- What Does It Mean To Be All In the Gospel of Jesus Christ?

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0:00.0	In 1965, Bert Baccharat composed the song called What the World Needs Now Is Love.
0:07.9	It was released as many Americans had differing opinions about the Vietnam War, but the
0:13.5	song's message seemed to be something anyone could agree with.
0:18.0	As the world, and particularly the United States, once again finds itself divided across
0:23.6	varying issues, I think there may be no better time than now for the episode you're about
0:29.7	to hear, which is all about one kind of love, charity.
0:35.5	In his new book A Better Heart, Tom Christofferson writes, The Experiences of Our Lives teach us
0:42.3	to see the world in a particular way, and yet in order to truly be of one heart with
0:47.9	those around us, to love our neighbor's deep, especially the ones who see and understand
0:53.3	the world differently, we have to be willing to think in new ways, to open our minds and
0:58.7	our hearts and finally our arms.
1:01.6	This is true regardless of any unkindness or contempt they may have shown us.
1:07.1	If our concern is for healing, if our hearts are set on obtaining the gift of charity, then
1:12.7	our imperative is for continuous engagement.
1:16.9	Only by persistently demonstrating genuine empathy can we rise above a conversation of
1:22.5	contention to one centered on sharing where we find meaning in life, our sources of peace
1:29.3	and of joy.
1:31.1	Tom Christofferson has spent his career in investment management and asset servicing, living in
1:36.7	the United States and Europe.
1:39.1	He has served as a director on corporate and nonprofit boards and as a volunteer with
1:43.8	agencies combating homelessness and long term unemployment.
1:48.3	He is the author of that we may be won a gay Mormon's perspective on faith and family,
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