Dear John wrote: (my comments inserted) ----- Original Message ----- From: "John W. Redelfs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2003 9:36 PM Subject: Re: [ZION] Bankruptcy and LDS
> Jim Cobabe wrote: > >The liberal perspective examined... > > > >http://www.slweekly.com/editorial/2003/feat_2003-07-31.cfm > > I found the article very frustrating. After reading the first half of it, > I discovered that the second half was off the right side of my screen with > no way to access it. > > Let's see. The Brethren ask us to: > > 1) Keep a year's supply of food, clothing, and fuel This is done slowly over time, rotating our food, buying the same food we eat dailyu as our food storage. It may take years, but we can achieve it. > > 2) Go on a mission A young man does not have to go on a mission on his 19th birthday. He can stay at home and save his money while working, paying his own way. Also, there ane many in this church who pay for others to go on missions. If the money is that tight, whatever the young man cannot afford will be paid for by others. > > 3) Get an education Community colleges, scholarships, etc. > > 4) Own our own home If we can afford it. or move to where you can afford it. Or live in a trailer or a mobile home. > > 5) Pay our debts I.e., live within your means. > > 6) Keep the wife at home While the children are high school or below. > > 7) Have as many children as we can as we can ... afford. An important distinction. > > 8) Save for a rainy day it's called Dabaseering (have you read The Richest Man in Babylon? - save 10% of your income, after returning 10% to the Lord as tithing - pay yourself first and live on the rest.) (I think I spelled that word wrong, but the definition is the same.) > > 9) Send our sons on missions See 2 above. Our sons can/should pay their own way. > > 10) Serve a senior's mission after retirement We can serve a senior mission right where we live - we don't have to go anywhere or live anywhere else. > > 11) Pay tithing People say "pay". Actually, if we believe as Brigham did/does, we own nothing; it is all the Lord's. We just show him that we acknowledge this by giving a token amount to support his church and his plan here on Earth. > > 12) Contribute a generous fast offering As generous as we can afford. This should not "cost" us anything, since we are simply taking the money we WOULD have spent and giving it to others. No net change in financial position, just a new change in our waistlines! > > Add it all up, and a man has to be a millionaire just to follow prophetic > counsel. Who has all this income? Not I. Although I must admit that I have a very generous income, I am not a millionaire by any means. If we do our very best to joyfully live the Lord's commandments as we commit to do every Sacrament meeting, then we will have enough, and we will have done enough, to satisfy the Lord. (I must stipulate here that I am not yet ready to die, because I don't think that I have done enough or tried hard enough. But I am doing better than a year ago!) Don't you agree? Jon ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// /// ZION LIST CHARTER: Please read it at /// /// http://www.zionsbest.com/charter.html /// ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// --^---------------------------------------------------------------- This email was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?aaP9AU.bWix1n.YXJjaGl2 Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] TOPICA - Start your own email discussion group. FREE! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/create/index2.html --^----------------------------------------------------------------
