My first post anywhere as a former Mormon

[_Trevor]

I have given the issue of LDS friends quite a bit of thought. In the end, I think I expected too much from my fellow members. Truth is, home teaching is a community responsibility. It is not intended to be friendship in the same sense as my close friendships are. Friendship can have many levels, and even casual friends or obligatory friends can play their role. I have to be 'friends' with my co-workers, and they have to be 'friends' with me. It facilitates a pleasant working environment. The average 'friendship' in a Mormon ward was about seeing to people's needs. I didn't do a great job at that, but along the way I did meet some nice people and bring something positive into a couple of lives.

[_Yoda]

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Carry on, kids.

[_Yoda]

Well done! Now go and get more of your hypocritical inactive friends to do the same so I don't have to home teach them.

That's a nice, charitable, Christ-like attitude.

Liz, instead of being an apostasy enabler, as is your usual function here, why not a little interrogation and challenge once in a while?

Pot? Meet Kettle.

Considering that the majority of posts I have split this evening were yours, and were direct personal attacks, you are hardly one to talk.

Also, it is BC, who is a member of the Church, and a supposed upstanding Priesthood holder, who deserves to be "challenged and interrogated" if he is passing the buck, and refusing to home teach inactive people with struggling or dwindling testimonies.

That hardly sounds like someone who is "about the Father's business".

And, if your attitude is similar to his, then you, also should be challenged and interrogated.

The crux of the priesthood is service. And, yes, as a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, I certainly can hold a fellow member's feet to the fire....particularly if that member claims to be an honorable priesthood holder.