Premises:
1. One of the most important things priesthood bearers do it to teach the Restored Gospel of Jesus Christ in homes:
- a. To their own families.
- b. To the families to which they are assigned as ministers.
2. Quorum instruction should reflect a sense of the relative importance of the doctrines of the Restored Gospel.
3. The more important a doctrine, the more frequently the doctrine should be taught, clearly and carefully bringing all to a unity of the faith, as much as this is possible.
Are these the twenty and five most important doctrines of the Restoration? If they are, they ought to be emphasized in Priesthood Quorum instruction.
1. Our God is an exalted man and woman, our literal Heavenly Father and Mother.
2. We humans are fallen children of Father and Mother.
3. Because we are fallen, we are spiritually dead (the senses of our spiritual body are deadened, and thus we are cut off from the presence of Father and Mother). And we must die temporally.
4. Father offers each of us release from that spiritual death.
5. That offer is extended to each of us through Jesus Christ, the Only Begotten Son of God and the Messenger of Salvation.
6. Jesus Christ came to earth and lived a sinless life, keeping every one of Father’s commandments.
7. Being sinless, Jesus Christ could and did atone for our sins, that we might not be damned forever because of our sins.
8. The release from spiritual death comes only through partaking fully of the New and Everlasting Covenant which was made possible by Jesus Christ.
9. To enter the New and Everlasting Covenant, we must first learn of Christ, and because of the spiritual witness we receive, we must be willing to put our trust and faith in him.
10. We demonstrate our initial faith and trust in Jesus Christ by repenting of our sins and by making the covenant of baptism.
11. In the covenant of baptism, we promise three things:
- a. That we are willing to take the name(s) of Christ upon us, now to become His child.
- b. That we will always remember Him.
- c. That we will keep every commandment He gives us.
12. If we meaningfully make the covenant of baptism under the hands of an authorized earthly administrator, then hands are laid upon our heads to confer the gift of the constant companionship of the Holy Ghost.
13. Having received the Holy Ghost, we may feast upon the words of Christ which He (the Holy Ghost) brings to us, so that we become faithful in all things.
14. Faith is to believe in Christ, to receive his words of instruction, and to obey each of those instructions as it comes.
15. Through our faith, we must press on, keeping every commandment, until we have become like our Savior and new father, Jesus Christ, in all things.
16. Faithful keeping of the commandments gives us a right to hope for the special blessings which are the rewards of the faithful children of Christ.
17. Faith and hope lead us to be able to receive a new heart from our Savior, a pure heart like His own. The name for this new heart is charity.
18. Without this charity, we are nothing. It is the great prize and goal of mortality. Possessing it, we can do any good thing.
19. With charity, we can receive and magnify the Holy Priesthood, the personal power of Jesus Christ to act in His stead, to accomplish the great priesthood works.
20. Using the Aaronic Priesthood, we can set our temporal stewardships in celestial order.
21. Using the Melchizedek Priesthood, we can set our spiritual stewardships into the celestial order in laboring to perfect the saints over whom we preside. (Especially our marriages and our families.)
22. Using the Melchizedek Priesthood, we can fulfill the missionary labors assigned to us, that every soul on earth might hear the glad tidings of the Restored Gospel.
23. Using the Melchizedek Priesthood we can fulfill our genealogy and temple work (that all might properly be sealed up, ready for eternity).
24. If we thus gain a new heart and fulfill our priesthood opportunities, our Savior will come to us and say, “Well done, thou good and faithful servant.”
25. Our Savior will then introduce us to the Father, and our spiritual death will have come to an end.