Friday, July 10, 2009

Church disciplinary councils

Yesterday I read D&C 102 which consists of the minutes from the meeting of the first High Council of the restored church. It was interesting to see the specific verses on casting lots, picking even numbers, picking an appropriate number of Speakers according to the severity of the case.

I asked Dad over lunch what more he could tell me about it and if they still drew lots like that. He said not usually. Usually the Stake President just picks who he wants to be involved.

We had a talk about some of his experience in his home stake. One case inparticular that we spoke of was about two businessmen who fell into serious acts of embezzlement.

Today I read a little out of this talk by Elder Ballard. I dont know how much of it comes right out of the manual but I thought it was quite informative.