Theology #20

Dear Advisor,

Will you please accept this as a Theology goal:

Thanks,
Jen

SCRIPTURE POWER!
Last year, my kids and I read through the entire Book of Mormon under the direction of our Br. Pres. We were excited to accomplish our goal. This year, the Primary is focusing on the truth of the scriptures, so the Primary Presidency has renewed that goal.  I am encouraging my daughter who can read, to do it on her own, but I wanted a different focus for our Family Scripture Study.  I thought that it would be beneficial to study the scriptures by topic. I've never spent a year doing this, so I am excited. I used the Topical Guide & Bible Dictionary to find scriptures about certain topics--Baptism, Faith & Hope, Love & Charity, etc.  I copied, pasted & printed out our first month (baptism as my daughter is preparing to be baptized soon) and I'll see how it goes. I plan to study each topic for 3-4 weeks. I haven't printed out the entire year in case I want to make adjustments after we start reading.  (ie, focusing on the messages given in the Bible Dictionary rather than just looking up scriptures with particular words in them or adding Conference references in as well)  I put two or three scriptures on each slip of paper in the jar. Each night we'll pull a slip and read the scriptures, discuss, and do any cross referencing that is needed.  Although I love to read the Book of Mormon chronologically, I do believe that reading it by topic will give us deeper roots and a stronger testimony of these principles of the gospel.