Plan of Happiness Lesson
Today I taught a lesson from Chapter 3 of the Teachings of the Presidents of the Church series about Joseph Fielding Smith. I love teaching at church and the plan of salvation is one of my favorite topics. My outline followed the chapter pretty well but it seemed less than perfect when trying to follow the pattern of seven. This is the outline that I used: 1) The Plan Presented 2) The Fall of Man 3) The First Death 4) The Atonement of Christ 5) The Probationary State 6) The Resurrection 7) The Second Death or Eternal Life Step three in my understanding of the seven pattern does not fit in spot number three but rather fits as a subset of number two or possibly in number four. In the past I put resurrection as number five and judgement as number six but that is a little unsettled in my mind at this point. The Atonement has to be number four because of its central nature to all things. This order did work very well in teaching about the plan of happiness. I did not go into the differen...