A few years ago, seeking a temple recommend from the Stake Presidency (in a Stake in which I don’t currently reside) I was refused an interview. Despite the fact that I had an unswerving love of Christ and God, and despite the fact that I have an abiding belief in the power of the scriptures, and despite the fact that I do believe it possible that people can and do speak to God, and that the church is theoretically and often (but not always) practically a great thing, it had been determined prior to my interview (that didn’t really take place), that my ‘testimony’ was not strong enough to merit a formal Temple Recommend interview. I think it boiled down to the way I answered this ‘pre-interview question:’
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