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Bishop Keith B. McMullin: Establishing Zion

By Julene Thompson NewsNet Senior Campus Reporter - 6 Oct 2002
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Elder Keith B. McMullin, member of the presiding bishopric.

Stop. Do not be in a hurry. You are in too much of a hurry. You are all the time on the wing. Too much in a hurry that you do not know what to do first, said Bishop Keith B. McMullin , Second Counselor in the Presiding Bishopric, in his Sunday afternoon address.

"The establishment of Zion should be the aim of every Latter-day Saint," he said.

In Zion no one is poor and all manner of wickedness is no more. They are of one heart and one mind.

Zion does not come as a gift but comes because good people build it.

Building is not an ordinary cause, he said. It is the building of Zion on the earth. To do this we must rise above selfishness.

Bishop McMullin said the primary characteristics needed in Zion are love, work, self-reliance and consecration.

People should love the Lord first, he said. To love God more than anything else orders us to take control over our priorities.

He said people should work. Work is a source of happiness, and self-esteem. There is no room for chicanery or greed in Zion.

Self-reliance is the harbinger of agency and security, he said. No true Latter-day Saint will shift the responsibilities of their family's well being to someone else.

Finally, consecration is the organization of the Celestial Kingdom which we should learn in this life.







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