2007-02-26 02:43:54 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The Church is worldwide with about 12 millon members. The largest growth area now is in Latin America and Africa.There are about 5 millon members in the US, which makes it the fifth largest denomination in the country.
The service consists of Sacrament meeting 70 min.
Sunday School 40 min
Relief Society (women) Young Men, Young Women (youth 12-17) and Prieshood (men) 45 min.
There is also a Primary class for children 3-11 and a nursery 18 mo.- 2 years
Sacrament meeting consists of receiving the bread and water and three speakers from the congregation. There is no paid clergy. A Bishop and two counsilors preside at the meeting. These are men that hold regular jobs and serve on a voluntary basis. Nearly all adults hold some "calling" in the Church.
2007-02-26 03:53:19 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Sunday worship includes a 3 hour block of meetings, which consists of Sunday School, sacrament meeting, and Priesthood meeting for the men, with Relief Society for the women. There are also Primary classes for the children, and Young Men's/Young Women's classes for the youth. There may be other activities during the week. We also worship in temples (for those with temple recommends), and in our homes. Reading the scriptures and praying daily are great ways to worship. We also look for great music to help worship. I like the music of Janice Kapp Perry, for example. As beta_fish said, we are all over the world.
P.S. The answerer below me has some untruths listed in his answer. I have posted my opinion on polygamy at least a dozen times. I do not believe it will be lived again when Jesus comes. On the contrary, I believe that those who were never able to be married in this life will have the privilege of finding someone, and the Lord's standard has always been 1 husband and 1 wife, except for temporary reasons which are His to decide. You can read more about those conditions in the book of Jacob in the Book of Mormon. Thanks.
2007-02-26 03:02:45 · answer #2 · answered by Cookie777 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Mormons worship in funereal meetings so dreary that depression is commonplace. They play dress-up to an amazing extent for their meetings, it's like a contest. Mormons comprise the only christian religion that believes in things that have been patently proven false by the best science available, like the existence of elephants and horses in the Americas in 600 BC, and also that Native Americans came from the middle east, not Asia.
They wear 'magic' underwear called 'garments' that supposedly shield them from harm and temptation, yet they can't seem to overcome the temptation to commit more sex crimes per-capita than any other group in America. They also preach abstinance from sex yet have the highest rate of teenage pregnancy.
Joseph Smith, the founder of mormonism, boasted that he was a better religious leader than Jesus and Brigham Young, the second "prophet" said that no man could enter heaven unless he believed in Joseph Smith, so they are kind of exclusionary. They say that they have abandoned poligamy, but they haven't, refusing to remove the 'poligamy commandment' from holy texts (Doctrine & Covenants 136) and preaching that the holy practice of poligamy will resume when Jesus returns or when it is 'practical' to do so. Men may be "sealed" to more than one wife if one dies prematurely, as well as posthumously in temple ceremonies. Since no woman can enter heaven without a husband, when a single woman dies she is "sealed" to whatever man is chosen for her.
People who have been babtized into the mormon church posthumously include adolf hitler, josef stalin and mao-tse tung, as well as all of the jews in the holocaust. Someday you too, will likely be babtized a mormon, like it or not!
2007-02-26 03:24:52 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
We worship the same as any other Christian religion.
The LDS church is headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, and there are many members of the church in the western US, however, the church as a strong and growing presence in nearly every country in the world. It is one of the fastest growing churches in the world.
2007-02-26 02:52:34 · answer #4 · answered by Open Heart Searchery 7 · 5⤊ 1⤋
I think the majority of mormons are found in Utah. Their ceremonies are largely patterned after the protestant church and Freemason rituals.
2007-02-26 02:49:06 · answer #5 · answered by Pirate AM™ 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
What the interest w/ mormons? Are you thinking about joining w/ them? I don't no much .
2007-02-26 02:49:52 · answer #6 · answered by TCC Revolution 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
They all seem to be in Salt Lake City, UT........
As far as how they worship.....very methodical....systematic.
2007-02-26 02:48:30 · answer #7 · answered by primoa1970 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋