This, I’m sure, will disappoint some…

Once anything in the church gets instituted it gets recorded and eventually all the dealings of this dispensation will be bound in scripture as previous generations have been. One day, someone who did not live in this dispensation will pick up the Book of the last dispensation of this earth and read about us.

I can’t do anything to change anyone else but I can change myself

That’s what really matters. One can only hope that your changes can influence others as they see how you’ve changed. Eventually, one can hope it would have a domino effect.

Take, for instance, what takes place in the temple.

Although one could argue that just because something isn’t scriptural does not make it unnecessary to the church, regardless of the spirituality of the members. It’s possible that God instituted the program, through his prophet, for reasons that may include, but not be limited to, the fact that we need prodding.

But there a lot of things that could be argued, and a lot of things that are possible, so I’ll admit that I’m getting into hypotheticals here and probably should have stopped a long time ago.

So to bring this back to the original point, I agree that it would great if “every quorum member would be so willing and proactive to help out the others out of love that it would be pointless to have to make assignments.” I regret that my comment distracted the conversation away from that more important point.

Home teaching, however, is a programme created to try meeting a scriptural principle.

I see what you are saying, and like I said I tend to agree with your point of view, but by that reasoning, shouldn’t we also say the same thing about all of our organization? Do we really need bishops, relief society presidents, area presidencies? Did the Nephites have these? Shouldn’t we all just be so in tune with the Spirit that we spontaneously help everyone around us, so that no organization is necessary? My point is that some appears to be necessary beyond just the “we are imperfect, therefore we need prodding” reasoning. We know that in the celestial kingdom there will be organization–a patriarichal one.

The question is whether home teaching is part of the organization that just exists because we need prodding, or if it part the organization that is necessary for other reasons (such as the reasons that bishops and other leaders are necessary). I agree that the Nephites probably didn’t need much prodding after Christ’s visit to acheive their Zion, but that doesn’t mean they didn’t need or have organization.