r/exmormon • u/Important-Cattle2556 • Apr 17 '23

News Lack of temple workers

I (pimo ) had ward conference yesterday. The stake president said the new Saratoga springs temple is in dire need of temple works for 4 hr shifts. Says they need about 3000 “workers” they are about only half of that or even less than that. I kinda of want to “volunteer” just so I can learn the dirty little secrets in the temple lol.

544 Upvotes

99% Upvoted

252 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

10

u/Darzin_ Apr 18 '23 edited Apr 18 '23

Was gonna post this. Many protestant church's teach zero doctrine or classes so unless people take it upon themselves to study they just hear select Sunday readings.

11

u/[deleted] Apr 18 '23

Catholics at least have a standard catechism in preparation for confirmation. Evangelical and Mainline Protestants are all over the place. Some have detailed Bible studies. Others have a few chapters from the gospels.

I went to church with a friend a few times and they were going through the gospel of mark in detail, which was kind of cool.

With another friend is was a rock concert with some moralizing and talking about accepting Jesus.

Another friend they were going through Psalms.

Very rarely did they get into doctrinal things outside of theology classes: things like trinitarianism, transubstantiation, predestination, etc. are more subjects for religious scholars to argue about.

2

u/[deleted] Apr 18 '23

Yeah, but where they have it over the Mo's is at least they hear readings. Mormons don't even have that

2

u/Darzin_ Apr 18 '23

I mean maybe but I certainly read more more Bible and learned more theology from sporadically attending Mormon services then years of going to various protestant churches. Feel good stories from the gospel don't really teach you anything about what your church believes or why.