The Family Proclamation

Paragraph 1:

a. What is ordained of God?

b. Who should marriage be between?

c. What is central to the Creator’s plan?

Paragraph 2:

a. Whose image are we all created in?

b. Who are we spirit sons and daughters of?

c. What does each of us have?

d. What is an essential characteristics of our identity and purpose?

Paragraph 3:

a. Who did we know and worship in the pre-mortal realm?

b. What did we accept there?

c. What did we come to earth to obtain?             To gain?              and to progress toward?

d. What is our divine destiny?

e. What does His plan enable to perpetuate beyond the grave?

f. What makes it possible for us to return to God and for families to be united eternally?

Paragraph 4:

a. What did God’s first commandment to Adam and Eve pertain to?

b. What remains in force?

c. Who has God commanded to employ the sacred powers of procreation?

Paragraph 5:

a. What is divinely appointed?

b. What does the first presidency affirm the sanctity of?

Paragraph 6:

a. Who are husbands and wives responsible to love and care for?

b. What are children?

c. How should parents rear their children?

d. What should they provide for?

e. What should they teach them to do?

f. What should they teach them to observe?

g. What should they teach them to be?

h. Who are they accountable to?

Paragraph 7:

a. What is ordained of God?

b. What is essential to His eternal plan?

c. What are children entitled to?

d. How should their parents honor their marital vows?

e. What is most likely to be achieved if founded upon the teachings of Christ?

f. What principles are successful marriages and families established and maintained on?

g. How should fathers preside over their families?

h. What are they responsible to provide?

i. What are mothers primarily responsible for?

j. What are parents obligated to do?

k. What may disability and death necessitate?

l. Who should lend support when needed?

Paragraph 8:

a. What should we not violate?

b. Who should we not abuse?

c. What should we not fail to do?

d. What will bring upon us foretold calamities?

Paragraph 9:

a. What should citizens and governments promote?

b. What is the fundamental unit of society?