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Following our present Prophet is the key to following Jesus Christ today!  Powerful counsel and teachings!  How Can We Tell if We are Really Following Jesus Christ Today? By Mark A. Mathews  · March 23, 2017 Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please  CLICK HERE Whenever I have read the New Testament, I have always placed myself in the text and wondered how I would have reacted to the teachings of Jesus Christ. Would I have followed him in faith like His Apostles? Would I have resisted or rejected his teachings like the Pharisees and Sadducees? Or would I have been indifferent and uninterested like so many others that he came across? I have learned that this is not a question we need to wonder about. The answer is simple. The Lord has revealed that the simplest way to measure how well we follow Jesus Christ today is by how well we follow His living prophets. At the Organization of the Church The first official meeting of the restored Churc

What a blessing!  To be able to watch General Conference again! 12 Admonitions from President Monson: Are We Following Them? By Scot and Maurine Proctor  · March 29, 2017 Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please  CLICK HERE Cover image by Scot Facer Proctor.  We have the glorious opportunity to listen to another general conference of the Church this weekend. Have we prepared ourselves to receive the word of the Lord? Are we in tune so that we can have our own questions answered? A quick review of some of President Monson’s words will help us prepare. The Lord Himself gave us the pattern for receiving His words through His ordained servants—and especially listening to a prophet’s voice: “Wherefore, meaning the church, thou shalt give heed unto all his words and commandments which he shall give unto you as he receiveth them, walking in all holiness before me; for his word ye shall receive, as if from mine own mouth, in all patience and f