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Sabbath Devotional :: Friends of the Last Supper
My husband and I were teaching our little primary class a few weeks ago about the waters of Mormon. We asked what they had promised when they were baptized. “To be good and repent,” they said. What else? I pressed. “To take Jesus’ name up on us,” they replied. Anything else? Crickets. In fairness, their confusion makes sense. I think there is some tendency to talk about baptismal covenants in individual terms. Your sins are washed away. The Spirit will guide you in your life. It’s a step in your development of following Jesus’ example and hoisting yourself towards heaven. And that’s not inaccurate. But I think it is incomplete. If Alma’s sermon (which, for my money is…