LDS, CoC, & Bickertonite General Conference (Josh Gehly 6 of 6)

What's the Difference between LDS, CoC, & Bickertonite General Conferences? Is it a week long like CoC? Every 6 months like LDS? A combination? Evangelist Josh Gehly will tell us more. Check out our conversation... https://youtu.be/mEoCSsCQJlo Don’t miss our other conversations with Josh: https://gospeltangents.com/people/josh-gehly   Copyright © 2024 Gospel Tangents All Rights Reserved Except for book reviews, no content may be reproduced without written permission GT  00:31  Now, do you have what we would call a general conference every--so, in our church, we do it every six months. In the Community of Christ, they do it every two or three years, usually three years.   Josh  00:40  Yeah, every six months.  GT  00:41  Yours is every six months, April and October?  Josh  00:43  Yeah, our spring conference is really our spiritual conference. There's very little business per se. But it's more of a big gathering to bring the saints all together. It's wonderful. And then October is our Business Conference. I mean, there's spiritual things, too. We're always rallying our young people and doing youth activities and just bringing the saints together. But October is our business part of the conference, as far as that goes.  GT  01:09  So, in the LDS Church, it's generally Saturday, Sunday, it's a two-day conference. In the Community of Christ, because they only do it every--well, with COVID screwed up. I think they went four and now they're going to go two, to get back on track. But it was like, eight, nine days, I think.  Josh  01:27  Wow. Awesome.  GT  01:31  Theirs was very interesting, very different from LDS General Conference, in the fact that they would have what would they would call legislation and it was really interesting.  Josh  01:46  Legislation, what is that?  GT  01:47  So, for example President Veazey announced that he was going to retire in two years, at the last conference, last April. And right after the conference, he had some serious health problems. I'm still not totally clear. I'm not clear. I just talked to somebody from their church, and she said, "I don't know, either."  Josh  02:12  Well, that's helpful.  GT  02:14  They're very hush-hush about it, for whatever reason. But at any rate, he announced he was going to retire in two years. He announced that they would discern who the next president would be, who's actually going to be a woman, Stassi Cramm.  Josh  02:27  I saw that.  GT  02:28  So she will be official--I think she's president-designate for the next, what's going to be a year now. She was just called a few weeks ago. She will be officially installed as president next year, next April, I believe. I might have to see if I can go to that again.  Josh  02:46  That'd be amazing.  GT  02:55  What we would call stakes, different mission centers will say, for example, this was really interesting to me. "We want to apologize for our past practices with race." Now, of course, in the LDS Church, we had a ban. The Community of Christ/RLDS Church never actually had a ban, but they did have--well, there were two things. There was one where the Prophet Joseph Smith, III had referred to what we would call a politically incorrect term of Negro. Of course, we don't use that term anymore. And so, people wanted to de-canonize the whole revelation, because basically, he had said, 'we're not going to deny blacks the priesthood, or he would say, negros, but we're not going to be hasty in in ordaining them, because we need to be careful about that.' And so there was a big debate. Should we de-canonize, I think it was their Section 116, if I remember right. There was a debate on should they de-canonize it or not? Then there was another resolution where a different mission center said, "We want to apologize on behalf of racism." The strange thing was, they would have whereas, whereas, whereas; let it be resolved that…this.