The Sabbath and The Sacrament

This Sunday the Relief Society lesson will be taken from Elder Oaks' General Conference talk The Sabbath and the Sacrament. Elder Oaks teaches us that "Partaking of the sacrament is the center of our Sabbath day observance." He talks about three things the Lord requires of us as we think about the Sabbath and the sacrament: (1) to keep ourselves unspotted from the world, (2) to go to the house of prayer and offer up our sacraments, and (3) to rest from our labors on the Sabbath day.

One of my favorite quotes from the lesson is kby Elder Melvin J. Ballard, "We want every Latter-day Saint to come to the sacrament table because it is the place for self-investigation, for self-inspection, where we may learn to retify our course and to make right our own lives, bringing ourselves into harmony with the teachings of the Church and with our brethren and sisters."