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Our relationship with God

A Minister, from a non-LDS church) on radio said something to the effect of: People do not pray to God as they used to. They want to get closer to people who are close to God instead.

Do you think that statement is true? Do most people not make attempts to get closer to God, but instead try to get closer to persons that they 'think' are closer to God?

God relationship

Just a couple of thoughts here, that are my opinion only:

I think part of being a member of the church (any church) is to associate with other members of the church, who hopefully feel the same as you (or I) do -- that the association helps us to maintain our standards and be edified by each other, which helps us to become (or remain) closer to God.

However, my personal relationship with God is *mine* alone to establish and maintain.  Getting closer to other people who seem to be close to God can't really help me with that -- and, for some of those people, their closeness to God may be just an illusion (unfortunate, but believe me, I've come into contact with some of those.)

But as for "most" people?  I couldn't begin to quantify what "most" people do, think, or feel in regard to God.

Roz

Our relationship with God Studies Doctrine Mormon

Yeah I believe to be very true. Members sometimes ask for blessings from a particular church leader instead of their home teachers like if the leader has a different priesthood than the regular Joe you know what am I saying?