Act In Doctrine: Spiritual Patterns For Turning From Self To The Savior (Spiritual Patterns, #2) (2012) - Plot & Excerpts
Thick, and mostly cerebral, this isn't a quick read. One story from the book best of all exemplifies the book as a whole: in an area seventy conference Q&A session, someone asks President Packer "will you please tell us what you've learned about the atonement?" President Packer replies, "Read the Book of Mormon as many times as is practical on the next three months and write a one-page essay on what you learned about the atonement. Next question." The questioner was hoping to download President Packer's knowledge and thus avoid the arduous task of learning for himself. Unfortunately, the answer was "you have to put in the work to get the result you're REALLY looking for." That lesson seems to apply to the book as a whole. I loved that since this was an ebook there were Youtube links that you could watch discussions with Bednar. People would ask honest sincere questions of how to live their lives closer to the Lord and he would give them some really great advice. ;) I enjoyed Bednar's personal stories that he shared in the book about people that have been examples to Him of how to be self-less/ Christlike/ Charitable EVEN IN THE THROWS of a HUGE TRIAL. WOW. I seemed to go through this book very quickly, but I highlighted lots of things and will for sure refer back to it!
What do You think about Act In Doctrine: Spiritual Patterns For Turning From Self To The Savior (Spiritual Patterns, #2) (2012)?
Good book. Lots of ideas on increasing the quality of scripture study.
—nazgul17
I learned so much from this book! Now to apply it...
—shelfita
