I Belong to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

I know that God is our Eternal Father. I know that He is our creator, yet knows each of us personally. He sent His Son, Jesus Christ, to be our perfect example. Christ was born in the humblest of circumstances, yet rose to be the greatest of all. He was literally the Son of the Living God and of Mary. He lived a perfect life, free from sin. For these reasons, he was able to pay the price for sin in the Garden of Gethsemane. He was the ultimate and eternal sacrifice. He paid this price out of love for each one of us personally and also for His love for the Father. He decidedly died on the cross to overcome physical death, a result of the fall of Adam. Being the Son of God, he had power over death and was thus resurrected on the third day after His crucifixion. He completed His scrifice by suffering for our sins in Gethsemane, submitting to death on the cross, and resurrecting the third day. This sacrifice is known as the Atonement. Through the Atonement of Christ, all mankind may be saved through obedience to the laws and ordinances of the gospel (Articles of Faith 1:3).

Christ taught this gospel while he ministered during three years. He fulfilled the Law of Moses, and reinstated the full law that was in play before the Law of Moses. His gospel explains this full law, which contains all that we must do to inherit Eternal Life, or life with God the Father and with Jesus Christ. The gospel basically consists of five steps: first: faith in the Lord Jesus Christ; second: repentance; third: baptism by immersion; fourth: reception of the gift of the Holy Ghost by the laying on of hands; and fifth: enduring in the faith 'till the end of our lives. Everyone who lives these five steps during their life will be eligible for Eternal Life. Christ will be the judge of whether or not we fulfilled these five steps sufficiently. Thus all may be "saved" by following these steps.

I know that Christ is the Savior of the world and my personal Savior. Without Him, I could never return to live with my Father in Heaven, because I, like all humankind, am imperfect. Like those in the New Testament, in following Christ's gospel, I am His disciple. His disciples were called saints then, and since He in unchangeable, I, being His disciple, am a saint. Christ established a single church when He was on the earth. When His true followers were all persecuted and killed in the years following the crucifixion, the Priesthood Authority of Christ was lost for many years. We are now in the last days, and in recent years, the Priesthood authority and the single true church of Jesus Christ has been restored to the earth through a living prophet. I am a member of that church, and thus, I am a latter-day saint of Jesus Christ's church. Or in other words, I belong to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.


The Church of Jesus Christ
"I belong to the Church of Jesus Christ
of Latter-day Saints.
I know who I am.
I know God's plan.
I'll follow Him in faith.
I believe in the Savior, Jesus Christ;
I'll honor His name.
I'll do what is right;
I'll follow His light.
His truth I will proclaim."
-Children's Songbook