Episode 204: Do I Have to Care? | The Second Coming

In a church where everything is “true,” how do we allocate importance? With only so much bandwidth, we all have to make choices about what matters to us. Which ideas do we find to be consistently resonant, or generative? Which produce meaningful fruit in our lives and relationships? In Episode 204, Cynthia and Susan take on the current interest in the Second Coming in a discussion about deciding what really matters.

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Notes & Quotes:

The Lord Jesus Christ Will Come Again, by Russell M. Nelson, 10/2024
Apocalypse, Wikipedia
The Second Coming of Christ Metaphysically Interpreted, by Jim Lewis
The Second Coming of Christ, by Richard Rohr, Center for Action and Contemplation, 10/30/2016
The Art of Letting Go: Living the Wisdom of St. Francis, by Richard Rohr
End of the World? What President Packer Said About It, by Jannalee Sandau, LDS Living, 9/8/2017
No, We’re Still Not Living in the Last Days, by Dan McClellan
Those Tithed Not Burned at His Coming, by Gordon B. Hinckley
Perfect Love Casteth Out Fear, by Dieter F. Uchtdorf, 4/2017
Jesus at the Waffle House, by Henry Rojas, Spirit in the Desert

Why are we building temples at such an unprecedented pace? Why? Because the Lord has instructed us to do so. The blessings of the temple help to gather Israel on both sides of the veil. These blessings also help to prepare a people who will help prepare the world for the Second Coming of the Lord! —Russell M. Nelson

My dear brothers and sisters, in a coming day, Jesus Christ will return to the earth as the millennial Messiah. So today I call upon you to rededicate your lives to Jesus Christ. —Russell M. Nelson

Whenever the material and the spiritual coincide, there is the Christ. Jesus fully accepted that human-divine identity and walked it into history. Henceforth, the Christ “comes again” whenever we are able to see the spiritual and the material coexisting, in any moment, in any event, and in any person. All matter reveals Spirit, and Spirit needs matter to “show itself”! I believe “the Second Coming of Christ” happens whenever and wherever we allow this to be utterly true for us. This is how God continually breaks into history—even before the first Stone Age, humans stood in awe and wonder, gazing at the stars. —Richard Rohr

“It is a marvelous time to be alive. The world is not going to come to an end anytime soon. You are going to have time to stand, as I stand now, talking about your children and your grandchildren and your great-grandchildren.” —Boyd K. Packer

“I don’t believe that God works in mysterious ways. I believe our mysterious God works in familiar ways; we just need to open our eyes. That’s what it means to experience the second coming of Christ. For me, it is to be able to see Christ in others. Christ in this moment, where matter and spiritual connect. For me, it’s not what we believe about the future that matters, it’s how we experience the Second Coming of Christ breaking through. Stay awake!” —Henry Rojas

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