{"id":1700,"date":"2009-12-10T17:50:32","date_gmt":"2009-12-11T00:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/?p=1700"},"modified":"2020-01-09T05:00:44","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T12:00:44","slug":"the-new-fourfold-purposes-of-the-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/2009\/12\/the-new-fourfold-purposes-of-the-church\/1700\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Fourfold Purposes of the Church"},"content":{"rendered":"

There have been rumors circulating in recent months that the threefold mission of the church that became part of Mormonism under President Kimball (Proclaim the Gospel, Perfect the Saints, Redeem the Dead) was going to be expanded to include something about caring for the poor and needy. It now appears those rumors were accurate. We get this from Peggy Fletcher Stack’s article<\/a> on the subject today:<\/p>\n

The LDS Church is adding “to care for the poor and needy” to its longstanding “threefold mission,” which is to preach the LDS gospel, purify members’ lives and provide saving ordinances such as baptism to those who have died.<\/p>\n

This mission first was coined by late LDS President Spencer W. Kimball in the 1980s and since then has been repeated as a mantra by the church’s more than 13 million members.<\/p>\n

The new group of phrases will be described as The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ “purposes,” rather than missions, and will be spelled out in the next edition of the LDS Church Handbook of Instructions , due out next year, church spokesman Scott Trotter confirmed this week. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I like it. A lot. <\/p>\n