Tonight, I read this verse from the Book of Mormon.
"And (Shiblon) was a just man, and he did walk uprightly before God; and he did observe to do good continually, to keep the commandments of the Lord his God; and also did his brother."
"And (Shiblon) was a just man, and he did walk uprightly before God; and he did observe to do good continually, to keep the commandments of the Lord his God; and also did his brother."
What did it look like, that "he did observe to do good continually?"
Perhaps, in today's time it would look like a faithful home teacher. The kind that Elder Jeffery R. Holland describes:
"Brethren, the appeal I am making tonight is for you to lift your vision of home teaching. Please in new, better ways see yourselves as emissaries of the Lord to His children. That means leaving behind the tradition of a frantic, law of Moses-like, end-of-the month calendar in which you rush to give a scripted message Church magazines that the family has already read. We hope, rather, that you will establish an era of genuine, gospel-oriented concern for the members, watching over and caring for each other, addressing spiritual and temporal needs in any way that helps.
Now as for what 'counts' as home teaching, every good thing you do so report it all! Indeed, the report that matters most is how you have blessed and cared for those within your stewardship, which has virtually nothing to so with a specific calendar or a particular location. What matters is that you love your people and are fulfilling the commandment 'to watch over the church always.'"
Perhaps it is the good neighbor,
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