Updated Statement of Principles Announcement

This Updated Statement of Principles Announcement includes additional details of the online vote and some minor but important wording changes from last week’s announcement.

We remind you that a sustaining vote to adopt the Lot’s Statement of Principles at the Layton conference will be conducted after the final talk on Sunday, September 30th. An online vote is open to covenant holders during the 24 hours prior to the conference vote. Online voters will need to visit scripturesproject.blogspot.com for the link to the vote, once the vote goes active Saturday, September 29th at 11:00 a.m. Mountain Daylight Time (MDT). Online voting will end on Sunday September 30th at 11:00 a.m. MDT.

We ask that you vote online OR at the conference but not both. We are calling this a sustaining vote because it IS NOT A VOTE TO DETERMINE THE PREFERRED DOCUMENT. That was done at the conference in Phoenix. See below.

Background

In Phoenix the Lot’s Document received the most votes as the conference attendee’s preferred Statement of Principles. (http://scripturesproject.blogspot.com/p/guide-and-standard-dpcs.html)

In part two of the voting process in Phoenix, many of those who preferred another Statement of Principles set aside their preference and agreed to accept the majority’s choice. 90-95% of the conference agreed to accept the Lot’s document. The third and last part of the vote was cancelled in Phoenix, out of a desire to avoid contention and we respect the right of those that made that decision.

The Layton conference is the first opportunity to complete the sustaining vote that was interrupted then. The time slot for the vote in Layton will immediately follow the last talk of the conference on Sunday, September 30th.

Purpose

Prior to voting, it is important to understand what you are voting on. Please read this brief summary carefully.

The purpose of the vote in Layton is to determine whether covenant holders are willing to adopt the Lot’s Statement of Principles as a guide and standard to be printed in our scriptures. This is not an attempt to determine WHICH document to adopt; that voting was done in Phoenix, and the Lot’s document received 90-95% acceptance.

Procedure

A vote to adopt would include those who favor the Lot’s Statement of Principles AND those who have another preference but are willing to join with the majority’s choice in order to complete the Lord’s assignment. Voting to adopt does not mean you agree with the Statement of Principles in every particular or feel that the document or process is without flaw.

A vote against adoption is appropriate for those who cannot accept the Lot’s Statement of Principles or the vote by which it was chosen and do not wish to see it added to our scriptures.

We ask your help in disseminating this announcement to any who may wish to participate.

Gordon Platt
McKay
And others

For more information please see these links:

Lots Statement of Principles: http://69.92.157.110:5000/sharing/rrToWd6bU
Phoenix Conference Voting: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fSdQsmIkydM
Statement from the seven chosen by lot: http://69.92.157.110:5000/sharing/vU1OYRJkU

— End of Announcement from the Scriptures Committee —

I wish I could adequately express my feelings of the importance of this sustaining vote in order to be prepared for that which the Lord desires to reveal to us next. I have shared previously that I accepted and voted for the Lots Statement of Principles. I believe the assignment to write a Statement of Principles was completed and was acceptable to the Lord. We simply need to sustain or acknowledge this Guide and Standard for our use.

The Lord expressed it thus,”When you have an agreed statement of principles, I require it to also be added as a guide and standard for my people to follow. Remember there are others who know nothing, as yet, of my work now underway, and therefore the guide and standard is to bless, benefit and inform them…” Note He doesn’t specifically say the Statement of Principles needs to be added to the Canon of Scripture He already accepted.

If you have accepted the Covenant, I urge you to carefully consider the importance of adding your sustaining vote at the General Conference this next weekend. I intend to do so. I am grateful to the scriptures committee for the work they completed in restoring the scriptures as best we are currently able to do with what has been preserved from the work of Joseph. Let us now move on with the next step in preparing ourselves to be of one heart and one mind that The Lord may teach us more about the temple in Zion.

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