1. Paul’s Missionary Journeys

2. Pictures from the Seniors MTC “Raising the Bar”

3. What?

4. Question
Why did the Lord, knowing of the coming apostasy, require that the gospel be preached to all the earth?

5. Rev. 12: 1-6 And there appeared a great wonder in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars: And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered. And there appeared another wonder in the heaven and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born. And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne. And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God that they should feed her a thousand two hundred and three score days.

6. How did the ‘woman’ end up in the wilderness?
1 Nephi 22: 5,6
Galatians 2:7-10
Acts 13:46
Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.
For so hath the Lord commanded us, saying, I have set thee to be a light of the Gentiles, that thou shouldest be for salvation unto the ends of the earth.
And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed.
Without the Apostle Paul:
Would there have been Christian Churches?
How about a bible?
No James 1:5 for Joseph Smith to read…

7. Acts 14: 19 And there came thither certain Jews from Antioch and Iconium, who persuaded the people, and, having stoned Paul, drew him out of the city, supposing he had been dead.
Howbeit, as the disciples stood round about him, he rose up, and came into the city: and the next day he departed with Barnabas to Derbe.
 And when they had preached the gospel to that city, and had taught many, they returned again to Lystra, and to Iconium, and Antioch,
Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.
Antioch

8. The Jerusalem Conference
The Problem: Tradition and the Law of Moses Acts 15: 1,2 How big a problem is this? Matt 13:24-30 What to do? Acts 15:4-12 The Conclusion? Acts 15: 23-29

9. Question?
In helping people grow in the church, [kids, for instance], when is ‘accommodating’ simply giving in and when is it letting them grow?

10. Philippi
Thessalonica
Ephesis
Athens

11. Paul in Athens
Acts 17: What are the dangers of living in a fad society? Acts 17: Acts 17: 29,30 Is there a time when accommodation stops and obedience is required?

12. John A. Widtsoe
"I believe that the spiritual resentment in the world today has resulted from the idolatry which still lingers upon the earth, the attempt to force men to worship a God that is man-made, an incomprehensible God, an essence, one who is so far from us in understanding that men cannot bow down before him as they should.... "The Latter-day Saints are able to answer this great need of humanity and to define God properly…it is the greatest message that the Church has to give to the world today—the true definition and true conception of God our Father, the Maker of the heavens and the earth. …a God to whom we may express our inmost desires, and from whom we may expect answers from time to time to satisfy our hearts' inmost desires."

13. Ancient Roman to his friend
“This seems a cheerful world, Donatus, when I view it from this fair garden under the shadow of these vines. But if I climbed some great mountain and looked over the wide lands, you know very well what I would see—brigands on the high road, pirates on the seas, in the amphitheaters men murdered to please applauding crowds; under all roofs misery and selfishness.
It is really a bad world, yet in the midst of it I have found a quiet and holy people. They have discovered a joy which is a thousand times better than any pleasure of this sinful life. They are despised and persecuted, but they care not. They have overcome the world. These people, Donatus, are the Christians and I am one of them.”
Quoted by Marion D. Hanks in Freedom and Responsibility, p. 11.