Saturday, April 20, 2024

Wealth Doing Good

It is common knowledge that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints manages its assets productively and has amassed considerable wealth. 

Salt Lake Temple and Environs Under Construction April 2024
This is a $1B+ Project 
The true Church D&C 1:30 undertakes large projects routinely without even so much as breaking a financial sweat. What does the word of God say about wealth? It is a blessing to be used for righteous purposes.

Proverbs 3:7-10 "Fear the Lord, and depart from evil. It shall be health to thy navel and marrow to thy bones. Honor the Lord with thy substance, and with the first fruits of all thy increase; So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine."

Proverbs 10:20-22 "The tongue of the just is as choice silver...The lips of the righteous feed many...The blessing of the Lord, it maketh rich."

Jeremiah 17:7-8 "Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is. For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit."

Malachi 3:10 "Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it."

The Church has virtually no long-term debt. Romans 13:8 "Owe no man any thing."

2 Corinthians 9:7-8 "God loveth a cheerful giver. And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work."

Philippians 4:19 "But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus."

Jacob 2:17-19 "Be familiar with all and free with your substance, that they may be rich like unto you. But before ye seek for riches, seek ye for the kingdom of God. And after ye have obtained a hope in Christ ye shall obtain riches, if ye seek them; and ye will seek them for the intent to do good - to clothe the naked, and to feed the hungry, and to liberate the captive, and administer relief to the sick and the afflicted."

Here is one small example of the way the true Church blesses lives worldwide.
Tabernacle Choir Touring Organ
Photo by Kirk Magleby April 19, 2024
The Church has world-famous organs in the Tabernacle (Aeolian-Skinner) and the Conference Center (Schoenstein) played by 3 professional organists (Richard Elliott, Andrew Unsworth, and Brian Mathias). All 3 organists have performed as guest artists with the Timpanogos Symphony Orchestra (TSO), 
April 2024 Brian Mathias with the TSO
For the 2013 concert with Richard Elliott, the TSO had to rent a portable organ at considerable expense. By the 2017 concert with Andrew Unsworth, the Tabernacle Choir had acquired a touring organ which they transported and installed at Timberline Middle School in Alpine, Utah. This was done at no cost to the TSO. Ditto the 2024 concert with Brian Mathias at Orem High School in Orem, Utah.

This touring organ, a magnificent instrument in its own right, was recently in the Philippines where the Tabernacle Choir gave a series of acclaimed concerts in February 2024. The Tabernacle Choir has been broadcasting continuously since 1929. The TSO has been enriching northern Utah County's arts scene since 2011. Both organizations, world's foremost choir and a local community orchestra, benefit from the support of a Church that gives the gift of music to the world.
Posted by Captain Kirk at 3:04 PM