What was previously called "excommunication or disfellowship," is now called "membership restrictions or withdrawal," according to the handbook, which is "sometimes necessary to help a person repent and experience a change of heart.
Doctrine and Covenants 134:10 wrote:They can only excommunicate them from their society, and withdraw from them their fellowship.
Handbook wrote:What was previously called "excommunication or disfellowship," is now called "membership restrictions or withdrawal,"
Doctrine and Covenants 134:10 wrote:They can only excommunicate them from their society, and withdraw from them their fellowship.
Webster's Dictionary 1828 wrote:Excommunicate
EXCOMMU'NICATE, verb transitive [Latin ex and communico.] To expel from communion; to eject from the communion of the church, by an ecclesiastical sentence, and deprive of spiritual advantages; as, to excommunicate notorious offenders.
Excommunication is the most severe Church disciplinary action. A person who is excommunicated is no longer a member of the Church. Church authorities excommunicate a person from the Church only when he has chosen to live in opposition to the Lord’s commandments and thus has disqualified himself for further membership in the Church.
I have a question wrote:In an article about the new online handbook...What was previously called "excommunication or disfellowship," is now called "membership restrictions or withdrawal," according to the handbook, which is "sometimes necessary to help a person repent and experience a change of heart.
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Calling a pig by another name doesn’t change its nature.
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Weak sauce from the LDS Church.
"All we have to do is engage in some PR-savvy renaming of the same old thing!"
To remove a person from the faith, “the feeling of the First Presidency and the Twelve [apostles] and members who we did research with felt that [excommunication] was a particularly harsh term,” general authority Seventy Anthony D. Perkins, executive director of the church’s Correlation Department, which oversaw creation of the handbook, explained in a video. “And so that term is replaced by the phrase ‘withdrawal of church membership.’”
As for “disfellowshipment," Perkins added, “that term indicates or seems to suggest that someone is being cut off from association with the church, which was never the intent, but the wording implied that.” The phrase in the new handbook is “formal membership restrictions.”
Excommunication baptismal prayer wrote:Having been commissioned of Jesus Christ, I EXCOMMUNICATE you in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Spooky Ghost. Amen.
Excommunication confirmation prayer wrote:In the name of Jesus Christ, and by the authority of the holy Melstinky Priesthood, I EXCOMMUNICATE you from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Snakes and say unto you, 'Holy Ghost depart'.
President David O McKay October 1953 general Conference wrote:The Choir will sing "The Lord's Prayer," and the closing prayer will be offered by Elder Harold S. Snow, president of the St. George Temple, after which this conference will be adjourned until 7 o'clock this evening when a general meeting of the Priesthood of the Church will be held in the Tabernacle.
Only those holding the Priesthood are invited to be present. Persons not holding the Priesthood will kindly refrain from attempting to enter the building, and that applies to those who have been excommunicated, who sometimes refuse to accept the excommunication.