Come unto Christ

Welcome Everyone Through the Savior’s Love

Elder Dube uses President Oaks’s request to remove an exclusionary sign to illustrate the Savior’s welcoming character. Jesus Christ loves all of God’s children, and His suffering and atoning sacrifice demonstrate His complete devotion to us. His love invites us both to approach Him and to love others as He does.

Rather, we invite all to come unto Christ through faith in Him and His Atonement.

President Oaks taught, “Jesus Christ did all of this because He loves all of the children of God.”

His suffering and atoning sacrifice show us how completely devoted He is to all of us.

• What does removing the sign at the mission office teach about inviting people to come unto Christ?
• How does Elder Dube connect the Savior’s suffering with His love for all of God’s children?
• What role do faith in Jesus Christ and His Atonement play in the invitation to come unto Him?
• When do I feel the Savior’s love, and how does that influence my desire to approach Him?
• What attitudes or behaviors in my life might communicate exclusion rather than welcome?
• How can I help someone feel the Savior’s love through the way I treat them this week?

Come Willingly and Surrender What Holds You Back

Elder Dube identifies three truths in Moroni’s invitation: coming requires action, denying ungodliness requires surrender, and being perfected in Christ requires a willing heart. We approach the Savior as we are rather than waiting until we achieve perfection. Full perfection comes only through the Lord and after the Resurrection.

“Come:” It’s an action. We choose to move from our current place to a better place.

“Deny yourselves:” Surrender. Let go of the things that are holding us back.

We do not need to perfect ourselves to come to Christ. We come to Christ to be perfected.

President Russell M. Nelson taught: “Perfection is pending. It can come in full only after the Resurrection and only through the Lord. It awaits all who love Him and keep His commandments.”

• What three truths does Elder Dube identify in Moroni’s invitation?
• Why is coming unto Christ different from perfecting ourselves before approaching Him?
• How does President Nelson’s teaching clarify when and through whom full perfection comes?
• What specific action can I take now to move closer to Jesus Christ?
• What habit, desire, or attitude holds me back, and what does surrendering it look like?
• How does the promise of being perfected in Christ change the way I respond to my imperfections?

Trust Christ’s Grace While Doing Your Best

The account of Randall and Laurin Child illustrates approaching Christ through prayer, trust, sincere effort, and a willing heart. Laurin’s answer to prayer emphasizes doing one’s best rather than demanding immediate perfection. Elder Dube teaches that the Savior’s grace helps Randall let go of what holds him back and that sanctification comes through Christ’s atoning blood.

‘Randall doesn’t need to be perfect. He needs to do the very best he can.’

He came to Christ—with prayer, with trust, and with a willing heart.

The Savior, through His grace, helped him to let go of what was holding him back.

If you will “deny not his power, then are ye sanctified in Christ by the grace of God, through the shedding of the blood of Christ.”

• How do prayer, trust, and willingness help Randall come unto Christ?
• What does Laurin’s answer to prayer teach about sincere effort and perfection?
• According to Moroni’s teaching, through whose power and sacrifice does sanctification come?
• Where do I need to replace pressure for immediate perfection with sincere effort and trust in Christ?
• What experiences help me recognize the Savior’s grace in overcoming a difficult habit or obstacle?
• How can I prayerfully support someone who is struggling without expecting immediate perfection?

Approach Christ Despite Struggles and Uncertainty

Elder Dube warns that the adversary uses struggles such as addiction, doubt, grief, and guilt to make us feel unworthy to come unto Christ. These struggles do not cancel the Savior’s invitation. Elder Dube specifically invites those whose testimonies feel less certain to approach Christ and embrace His promise of lasting, full joy.

The adversary wants to hang that sign on the gate of our heart.

Addiction, doubt, pride, pain, grief, guilt, materialism—or whatever is holding us back—he tells us this makes us unworthy to come unto Christ.

To him, and to all who feel that same ache, I invite you, please come unto Christ and embrace His promise, “that [His] joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.”

• How does the adversary use personal struggles to discourage us from approaching Christ?
• How does Elder Dube respond to someone whose testimony feels less certain?
• What promise from Jesus Christ does Elder Dube offer to those who experience uncertainty?
• What thoughts make me feel that I cannot approach the Savior, and how does this talk challenge those thoughts?
• What does coming unto Christ look like for me when I experience doubt, grief, guilt, or pain?
• When do I experience joy through Jesus Christ even while difficulties remain?

Invite Others and Lose Yourself in Helping Them

Elder Dube asks each listener to find one person and invite that person to come unto Christ by following His teachings or meeting with the missionaries. He teaches that losing ourselves in helping others come to Christ helps us find solutions to our own problems. The Savior’s promise connects finding our lives with losing them for His sake.

My humble invitation to us all: Will you find one person and invite him or her to come unto Christ by exercising faith to follow His teachings, or invite a friend to meet with the missionaries?

As you lose yourself in helping him or her come unto Christ, you will find solutions to your current problems.

Our Savior has promised, “For whosever will save his life shall lose it: and whosever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.”

• What specific invitation does Elder Dube extend to every listener?
• What two ways of inviting someone to come unto Christ does he identify?
• How does the Savior’s teaching about losing and finding our lives relate to helping others?
• Who is one person I can prayerfully invite to follow Christ’s teachings or meet with the missionaries?
• How can I extend that invitation with love and respect for the person’s agency?
• What experiences show me how helping others follow Christ brings perspective or help with my own challenges?