388 One phrase Church Leaders Never Say Anymore -- and Why
Wasn't General Conference wonderful today, Saturday, April 4, 2015! One Phrase Church Leaders Never Say Anymore + Why JANNALEE ROSNER - March 25, 2015 from LDS Living There are plenty of phrases that Latter-day Saints have heard repeated over and over again like scripture, though in reality they are only based on scripture . “Free agency” is one of them. Most of us are probably familiar with the term "free agency" from Sunday School classes or children trying to assert their independence. But is agency really free? There are several scriptures that may have influenced Latter-day Saints to start adding the word free onto agency. 2 Nephi 2:27 ; 10:23 , D&C 58:27 , and Helaman 14:30 all mention some variation of each of us being free to choose or act for ourselves. However, D&C 101:78 describes this principle in a different way that has recently become more widely used by Church leaders and in Mormon circles: “that every man may a