Item Detail
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English
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Why the True Church Cannot Be Perfect
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Dialogue : A Journal of Mormon Thought
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Spring 2013
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46
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1
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Cambridge, MA
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Dialogue Foundation
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94-107
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In an August 2008 letter to Brigham Young University's student newspaper, a disgruntled student made this inadvertently revealing statement that he realizes that although the church itself is perfect, the people in it are definitely not. He was right about the members, of course, but his naive assumption that the Church is perfect is as illuminating as it is pervasive among Latter-day Saints. This misconception lies at the heart of many of the struggles the Church and its members find themselves facing in their increasingly complex and information-saturated world. Here, Terry examines the fallacious belief that the true Church must also be perfect, shows that this belief is damaging to Church members and to the organization itself, and suggests a more realistic and less stressful understanding of the Lord's work in their day.