Exclusive or Inclusive?

8: Moroni 7:16 Ha! It’s here! I’ve been trying to help the deacons understand the need that we all have to love our brethren: our friendships can’t always be “up”, or else we do like I did, and eventually exclude all of our acquaintances from further interaction because of their sins. Not only  

For behold, the Spirit of Christ is given to every man, that, but we’re trying to follow our Savior, who had a reputation for hanging out with prostitutes and tax-collectors, who advised the need for us to

that he may know good from evil; willingly be found in the company of convicts, and yet apparently

wherefore, I show unto you the way to judge; was demonstrating the correct way to chose your friends. Or look at Ammon: he has just barely experienced a mighty change of heart, and it must have

for everything which inviteth to do good, looked to his father like he was fleeing the company of good people (the Nephites) to join his prior partners in sin, while planting himself in the larger context

and to persuade to believe in Christ, of “a wild and a hardened and a ferocious people” (Alma 17:14), but a people who would clearly remind him of His belief in Christ’s ability to lift them from their depravity into salvation and exaltation, a people storied for their diligence. So if you want every person that you meet to be sent forth by the gift and power of Christ, there’s one way to do it:  

is sent forth by the power and gift of Christ; no matter what they are like, make sure that their

wherefore ye may know with a perfect knowledge it is of God.” way of being invites you to do good and persuades you to believe in Christ. Inadvertently, you will also become someone who is sent forth by the gift and power of Christ yourself.