Day 240

• Principle: Love given through service leads to true discipleship.
• Book of Mormon Reading: Alma 58:1 - 58:12
  • George Albert Smith taught:
    • “There is a division line well defined that separates the Lord’s territory from Lucifer’s. If we live on the Lord’s side of the line, Lucifer cannot come there to influence us, but if we cross the line into his territory, we are in his power. By keeping the commandments of the Lord, we are safe on His side of the line, but if we disobey His teachings we voluntarily cross onto the zone of temptation and invite the destruction that is ever present there” (Improvement Era, May 1935, 278).
  • How does service lead to discipleship and protection?
• Study the following scripture chain through the scriptures.  It will take you through why you should serve, how you should serve, the blessings of service, and how service will prepare you for judgement day. 
  • D&C 93: 20
  • D&C 20: 18,19
  • Mosiah 2: 17
  • D&C 4: 3
  • D&C 4: 2
  • 1 John 2: 17, 23, 24
  • Mosiah 4: 11-23
  • D&C 76: 5-10
  • D&C 20: 31
  • 1 John 2: 5, 10
  • 1 John 4: 10-12, 16, 17
• Additional Study:
  • Kazuhiko Yamashita, “Be Ambitious for Christ”, October 2016
  • Have I Done Any Good?, Hymns No. 223
  • A Happy Helper, Children’s Songbook No. 197a