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In studying Come Follow Me the past couple of weeks I came across a couple of quotes that I thought worth sharing. It struck me that many people left the church even in Joseph Smith's time (which made me all the more grateful for faithful ancestors). When someone was disenchanted with the church for whatever reason (often because Joseph Smith was a man, and not an almost-God), they often became bitter enemies and caused Joseph to suffer immensely. Today we are seeing people leave the church, too--and sometimes they cannot leave it alone. Sometimes we have friends or even family that have questions and their faith wavers. I thought that this first quote was a great way to approach those who come to us with questions. "How do we respond to those who seek to tear down the faith of others?" Lawrence E. Corbridge, a member of the Quorum of the Seventy, spoke once about how his assignment as a general authority was to read many of th...
