![]() ![]() True converts don’t merely love those who love them-they strive to love everyone including our “enemies” ( Matthew 5:44). Those who are “born again” feel their Savior’s love and have great love for Him. He thoughtfully replied: “To love more and to baptize more converts.” He also shared that “Love is the great motivator of what we do. In January, someone asked him if he had any New Year’s resolutions. Learning, Teaching and Becoming True Convertsĭuring a zone conference in January 2019, President Stephen Keung of the Canada Calgary Mission, shared that he had been so busy working to achieve a “Miracle Month” for baptisms in December, that he forgot about setting New Year’s goals. can ye look up to God at that day with a pure heart and clean hands? ( Alma 5:14,19, italics added).” Alma then reminds us that we can only be saved if we are “.cleansed from all stain, through the blood of him.who should come to redeem his people from their sins” ( Alma 5:21, italics added) We learn from King Benjamin, “And now, because of the covenant which ye have made ye shall be called the children of Christ, his sons, and his daughters for behold, this day he hath spiritually begotten you for ye say that your hearts are changed through faith on his name therefore, ye are born of him and have become his sons and his daughters” ( Mosiah 5:7, italics added).Īlma asks, “Have ye received his image in your countenances? Have ye experienced this mighty change in your hearts ?. ![]() What happens when we are born again and truly converted? The Lord said: “Marvel not that all mankind, yea, men and women, all nations, kindreds, tongues and people, must be born again yea, born of God, changed from their carnal and fallen state, to a state of righteousness, being redeemed of God, becoming his sons and daughters And thus they become new creatures and unless they do this, they can in nowise inherit the kingdom of God” ( Mosiah 27:25–26, italics added). Devn Cornish “The Gate Called Baptism,” Ensign, Feb. Surely, none of us will be able to ‘see’ the kingdom of God until we have ‘experienced this mighty change in hearts’ ( Alma 5:14, italics added). It is having ‘a broken heart and a contrite spirit,’ which the Savior described as the only offering He will accept ( 3 Nephi 9:19–20). Devn Cornish of the Seventy added, “Being ‘born again’ is another name for conversion. Bednar, “Ye Must Be Born Again,” Ensign, May 2007).Įlder J. But other essential steps in the process of being born again include total immersion in and saturation with the Savior’s gospel” (David A. Bednar said, “We begin the process of being born again through exercising faith in Christ, repenting of our sins, and being baptized by immersion for the remission of sins by one having priesthood authority. He was not referring to a spiritual experience only, but to an experience involving water also.”Įlder David A. He explained that a person had to be born this second time both of water and of the Spirit. Burton said, “Jesus explained that this new birth was symbolic in nature and thus different from one’s first birth. It is such a significant change that the Lord and His prophets refer to it as a rebirth, a change of heart, and a baptism of fire.Įlder Theodore M. ![]() True conversion involves “a change in our very nature” ( Topics, Conversion). It is a “miracle of a lifetime” that “begins with the decision to follow Jesus Christ, to change and live a better life through Him” ( Come, Follow Me-For Individuals and Families, p. Of course, I quickly came to know that baptism and confirmation are not an end but a beginning. I accepted the invitation to keep God’s commandments and took action to live them. ![]() My baptism was a big day-the culmination of several weeks of intense scripture study, discussion, and prayer. ![]()
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