A few Sundays ago the topic of the sacrament meeting talks was the \u201crestoration\u201d. It had all the necessary ingredients: restoration versus reformation, authority being lost as the ancient apostles were killed, our church being the \u201csame\u201d as the ancient church, and America as the prepared homeland for the restoration.<\/p>\n
A brief discussion I had with someone between sacrament and sunday school centered on bringing up the differences rather than similarities bewteen the Latter-day church and the ancient church. By only discussing the restoration as a return to the early church, do we sometimes create an awkward space to talk about differences? Can we spell out some of these differences in a faith-reaffirming way?<\/p>\n
I\u2019m no historian of early Christianity, and so I won\u2019t even try to make any historical claims (although those with historical interests are more than welcome to); but I am wondering what kinds of similarities are essential to our \u201crestorationist\u201d claims, and what kinds of differences are we comfortable accepting?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A few Sundays ago the topic of the sacrament meeting talks was the \u201crestoration\u201d. It had all the necessary ingredients: restoration versus reformation, authority being lost as the ancient apostles were killed, our church being the \u201csame\u201d as the ancient church, and America as the prepared homeland for the restoration. A brief discussion I had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":452,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n