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BYU Elder Urges Students to 'Settle' Their Faith in Jesus Christ
Confirmed
In Short: During a BYU visit, Elder Andersen encouraged students to firmly establish their faith in Jesus Christ, drawing on biblical texts and personal experience.
During a recent visit to Brigham Young University (BYU), Elder Andersen urged students to 'settle' their faith in Jesus Christ, emphasizing the importance of making a firm commitment to their beliefs.
In his address, he referenced the Bible and the Book of Mormon, explaining that true faith involves more than just having all the answers, but rather a deep, settled conviction that can guide one through life's complexities.
What's confirmed
- During a recent visit to Brigham Young University (BYU), Elder Andersen urged students to 'settle' their faith in Jesus Christ, emphasizing the importance of making a firm commitment to their beliefs.
- In his address, he referenced the Bible and the Book of Mormon, explaining that true faith involves more than just having all the answers, but rather a deep, settled conviction that can guide one through life's complexities.
What's still developing
- Speaking about his imminent “departure,” or death, when he would take the short trip from the land of the living to the grave (Eccl. 9:10), [2] Paul wrote that his “crown of righteousness” was “laid up” for him and that the Lord would give it to him “on that Day,” the day of Jesus’ “appearing” (2 Tim. 4:6-8; see also 1 Peter 5:4).
- While my husband and I chatted with friends over lunch, our 3-year-old daughter chimed in with an unrelated comment about Jesus’ coming.
- As Alyssa babbled enthusiastically about going to heaven and being with Jesus, our friend Cecilia smiled and patted her shoulder.
- While Cecilia thought this event should be put off as long as possible, some Christians portray death as a welcome release from this life of suffering into a better life with Jesus—something to be longed for and perhaps even hastened.
- Christians receive their heavenly reward simultaneously at Jesus’ coming, not individually at the moment of death; they enjoy eternal life in their glorified bodies, not as disembodied souls.
- While Adventists marshal numerous Bible texts to support their view, Christians of other faiths also have a few texts on their side.
- There’s Jesus’ promise to the thief on the cross, which we explain by saying that the punctuation should read “Assuredly, I say to you today, you will be with Me in Paradise” (Luke 23:43)—with “today” emphasizing Jesus’ assurance in the midst of their dire circumstances.
- “In your world of complexity, Robert Frost might rewrite his poem: ‘One hundred roads diverged in a yellow wood, and sorry I could not travel them all, long I stood.’ With so many choices and alluring paths before you, it will require strength of heart and mind to boldly, without distraction or deception, 'settle this in your heart' and walk the road less traveled toward the Savior," Andersen said.