At 09:21 PM 8/22/03 -0500, Stacy Smith wrote:
You imply there is a difference between disfellowshipment and excommunication.
There is indeed a difference. A member who is disfellowshipped remains a
member, although there are a number of things s/he is not allowed to do
which a member in good s
You imply there is a difference between disfellowshipment and
excommunication. Is there any record of what was said when Oliver Cowdary
was excommunicated, for instance?
Stacy.
At 08:42 PM 08/22/2003 -0500, you wrote:
Stacy Smith:
Has anyone ever witnessed an actual excommunication of
someon
Stacy Smith:
Has anyone ever witnessed an actual excommunication of
someone else by this or any other church? ... Are they
generally public or private affairs?
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About 25 years worth of them in our Church, none in any
other church. In ours, they are strictly confidential.
If
Steven Montgomery wrote:
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> Hey! I was born and raised in the Uintah Basin. All kinds of relatives
> on
> both sides of my family in, around, and through such locales as Vernal,
> Roosevelt, Altamont, Tridell, Jensen, Maeser, etc.
>
> So, you've probably bumped into some of my relatives out
Stacy, in a past calling I had to attend church disciplinary councils and was present
for a disfellowship (not excommunication) procedure. (To make up for it, I was lucky
enough to attend several church disciplinary councils wherein the person was
"re-communicated" I guess you'd call it. Thei
Hi. Has anyone ever witnessed an actual excommunication of someone else by
this or any other church? It seems to me that most churches refuse to do
it. Why this bothers me I'm not sure, because I know that other churches
don't have the authority to really matter but somehow it does. I think
I always try to think about my personal situation. I was merely curious
about the environs and how it would be handled.
Stacy.
At 04:26 AM 08/22/2003 -0600, you wrote:
Well I supose it depends on what you mean by "defile" in regard to the
temple environs. That might suggest a rededication or
A bunch of years ago - late 1980's iirc - a man with an expired temple
recommend (he had been ex'd, I think) forced his way into the D.C. Temple
with a gun and held a couple of temple workers hostage for a few hours. He
eventually surrendered and the story made the news. The temple was closed
for
This is what happened in Manti, as we were told by some Manti folks. Most of the
time, entering the temple unworthily is considered significantly different from
defiling the temple (a premeditated act which leaves physical evidence). Entering the
temple unworthily defiles the person, not the
Well I supose it depends on what you mean by "defile" in regard to the temple
environs. That might suggest a rededication or something like that. I do not think
that someone who is unworthy, simply by being there is likely to ruin the experience
for all of the attendees.
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