Name: The Correct Name of the Church
Uploaded: 2019-03-30T06:59:25.000Z
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My beloved brothers and sisters, on this beautiful Sabbath day

we rejoice together in our many blessings from the Lord.

We are very grateful for your testimonies of the restored

gospel of Jesus Christ, for the sacrifices you've

made to stay on or return to His covenant path,

and for your consecrated service in His Church.

Today I feel compelled to discuss with you

regarding a course correction for the name of the Church.

I did this because the Lord impressed upon my mind

the importance of the name He decreed for His Church,

even The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

As you would expect, responses to this statement

and to the revised style guide have been mixed.

the name of the Church on their blogs and social media pages.

Others wondered why, with all that's going on in the world,

it was necessary to emphasize something so "inconsequential."

And some said it couldn't be done, so why even try?

Let me explain why we care so deeply about this issue.

But first let me state what this effort is not:

Joseph Smith did not name the Church restored through him;

It was the Savior Himself who said, "For thus shall

even The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints."

Even earlier, in AD 34, our resurrected Lord

gave similar instruction to members of His Church

"Ye shall call the church in my name. ...

"And how be it my church save it be called in my name?

be called in the name of a man then it be the church of a man;

but if it be called in my name then it is my church."

Thus, the name of the Church is not negotiable.

When the Savior clearly states what the name of His Church

should be and even precedes His declaration

with "Thus shall my church be called," He is serious.

And if we allow nicknames to be used or adopt or even

sponsor those nicknames ourselves, He is offended.

What's in a name or, in this case, a nickname?

When it comes to nicknames of the Church, such as "LDS

Church," the "Mormon Church," or the "Church of the Latter-day

To remove the Lord's name from the Lord's Church

we are subtly disregarding all that Jesus Christ did

Premortally He was Jehovah, God of the Old Testament.

He was the Creator of this and other worlds.

He chose to submit to the will of His Father

and do something for all of God's children

Condescending to come to earth as the Only Begotten

of the Father in the flesh, He was brutally reviled,

took upon Himself every pain, every sin, and all

of the anguish and suffering ever experienced by you and me

and by everyone that has ever or will ever live.

Under the weight of that excruciating burden,

All of this suffering was intensified as He was cruelly

Through these excruciating experiences and His subsequent

Resurrection--His infinite Atonement--He granted

immortality to all and ransomed each one of us from the effects

Then in the year 1820, God the Father and His Son,

Jesus Christ, appeared to the Prophet Joseph Smith

to initiate the Restoration of the Lord's Church.

After all He had endured--and after all He had done

for humankind--I realize with profound regret that we have

unwittingly acquiesced in the Lord's restored Church being

called by other names, each of which expunges the sacred name

Every Sunday as we partake worthily of the sacrament,

we make anew our sacred promise to our Heavenly Father

that we are willing to take upon us the name of His Son, Jesus

We promise to follow Him, repent, keep His commandments,

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