Week # 29


FREE  AGENCY


"Next to the bestowal of life itself, the right to direct that life is God's greatest gift to man.  Among the immediate obligations and duties resting upon members of the Church today, and one of the most urgent and pressing for attention and action of all liberty-loving people, is the preservation of individual liberty.  Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession earth can give."  (David O. McKay, in Conference Report, Apr. 1950, p. 32).

Questions and Activities

• What is meant by the term free agency?
• What was the role of free agency in the pre mortal life?  in the Fall?  in the Atonement?
• Why is agency vital to the plan of salvation?
• In what ways does the exercising of agency bring bondage?  freedom?
• Ponder and record in your journal the relationship between keeping God's commandments and maintaining your free agency?
• In what ways do opposition and free agency help us grow?
• What decisions or choices do you make everyday or every week that have eternal significance?  What ought to influence you in making these decisions?

Topical Guide

Agency

Choose, Chose, Chosen

Free

Initiative

Liberty

Opposition

Probation, Probationary

Prove

Temptation

Test, Try, Prove

Scriptures

2 Nephi 2:11-18

Mosiah 29:26-27, 32

Alma 30:7-9;  43:9

Moroni 7:12-19

D&C 93:30

Moses 4:3-4

Articles of Faith 1:11,  12

Bible Dictionary

Conscience

Fall of Adam

Tempt

Other Sources

Gospel Principles, chapter 4

A Marvelous Work and a Wonder, chapter 24