Comments on: Mormon Women and Priesthood Power https://womenseekingchrist.org/2013/04/22/mormon-women-and-priesthood-power/ Who We Are, What We Believe, How We Live -- Glimpses into Latter-day Saint Life Sun, 30 Jun 2013 09:58:24 +0000 hourly 1 By: mormonwomen https://womenseekingchrist.org/2013/04/22/mormon-women-and-priesthood-power/comment-page-1/#comment-69811 Fri, 26 Apr 2013 04:48:34 +0000 http://mormonwoman.org/?p=12993#comment-69811 “it is not something singular that is meant to bring glory to the individual, but something that eventually culminates into a Family unit, something collective that is meant to bring Glory to Heavenly Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ, our Brother. A Family unit, doing the Will of the Family of God.”

Guy, thanks for your comment. I like how you captured this here.

Sorry for what you have been through, but I appreciate the perspective you bring of what the priesthood as a whole, a bigger picture, means to you. I did a recent read of the Book of Mormon looking for these kinds of patterns as well. I also see priesthood as God’s power with the purpose of gathering ALL of us to Him in His pattern of family.

]]> By: Guy Vestal https://womenseekingchrist.org/2013/04/22/mormon-women-and-priesthood-power/comment-page-1/#comment-69806 Thu, 25 Apr 2013 15:58:45 +0000 http://mormonwoman.org/?p=12993#comment-69806 I see the Priesthood as a whole, it is made up of parts, the Wife, the children. Look at the Jailer in Philippi, he asked “What must I do to be saved?”, the answer given to him was to “believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you and YOUR HOUSEHOLD will be saved.” and when you continue to read on in Acts 16:29-34, you can see the beginnings of the Priesthood unfolding. The Gospel was preached to everyone in the home, everyone was washed clean of their stripes. Paul & Silas (the Priesthood)were “brought into his house”, food was set before them, they (the Priesthood) was welcomed as a family, he rejoiced that he had believed, and his household.

That is just one of many examples I could sit here and type for hours on, but it becomes plain to see that the Priesthood is indeed “Family”, because the Bible is simply a “Handbook on Family”, Heavenly Father explaining how His children have lived, and should live, which is extended, and expounded upon by the New Testament, and then restored, and verified by The Book Of Mormon, when we see the restoration of “Womanhood” in the Nephite society.

Maybe the incompleteness of my own Priesthood, being a single Father of 8 Daughters makes me more sensitive to the missing piece within it, and with many of the “feminist types” as they label themselves, asking why “they” do not have the Priesthood, I think it is because they are missing the fact that it is available to them, but it is not something singular that is meant to bring glory to the individual, but something that eventually culminates into a Family unit, something collective that is meant to bring Glory to Heavenly Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ, our Brother. A Family unit, doing the Will of the Family of God.

I believe this to be true because I can see the missing piece in our “unit” so to speak,during instances where the Priesthood would be doing the Will of God, during sacrament when she is missing, during Family Night when she is missing, during Scripture learning times, any and all Family times, both within the walls of the Church, and without, where she is missing.

Matthew 28:18-20 is a very good example of explaining the Priesthood in an overall manner, but if you ponder closely, you can see that making disciples of ALL the nations, means Women as well, so it stands to reason that the Priesthood is recruiting the Priesthood, ALL of the nations, together, a Family of Children under their Heavenly Father, leaving their Heavenly Father to come to Earth, and then returning to Him as the same Brothers and Sisters they left Him as….

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