Home Teaching With Purpose and Power

by Richard J. Marshall

If home teaching is a divine calling, why do I feel so negative about it? Home Teaching With Purpose And Power, in story form, gives powerful answers to this question - and many more. It is the first book ever published that is entirely about home teaching, and it includes a wealth of examples and ideas about how to achieve excellence in that calling.

158 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1990

Reviews

[Lisa · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book surprised me. It was fantastic. Although it is dated, written to men, and the name home teaching is now ministering, it was instructional for me, as a woman today. Written in story format, this book taught me how to be "anxiously engaged" with people and not just programs. I learned that there is a scriptural foundation for home teaching/ministering: Moses 5:12 "Adam and Eve blessed the name of God and they made all things known unto their sons and their daughters . . ." From the Apostle James 1:27 "Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction." From the Book of Mormon, King Benjamin states in Mosiah 2:17 "when ye are in the service of your fellow beings ye are only in the service of your God."

[Monica · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really liked this book. It is really blunt and gets to the point of home teaching. I felt it really hashed out the reasons behind it and related it to real experiences. It portrays how many of the brethren feel about home teaching and how to find your own testimony of its usefulness and divine origin.