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Ask your Mormon friend how they feel about what James said when weighing it against what the LDS prophet Spencer Kimball declared. If the gospel is all about ordinances and works, where’s the good news?
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Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, edited by Edward L. Kimball, (Bookcraft, 1982), p. 502; “Ordinances are basic to the gospel. Now, what is the gospel of which we speak? It is the power of God unto salvation; it is the code of laws and commandments which help us to become perfect, and the ordinances which constitute the entrance requirements.”