“This Is the Way”
2 Nephi 31:20–21
20 Wherefore, ye must press forward with a steadfastness in Christ, having a perfect brightness of hope, and a love of God and of all men. Wherefore, if ye shall press forward, feasting upon the word of Christ, and endure to the end, behold, thus saith the Father: Ye shall have eternal life.
21 And now, behold, my beloved brethren, this is the way; and there is none other way nor name given under heaven whereby man can be saved in the kingdom of God. And now, behold, this is the doctrine of Christ, and the only and true doctrine of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, which is one God, without end. Amen.
President Howard W. Hunter said:
“. . . [T]he key to a unified church is a unified soul—one that is at peace with itself and not given to inner conflicts and tensions. So much in our world is calculated to destroy that personal peace through sins and temptations of a thousand kinds. We pray that the lives of the Saints will be lived in harmony with the ideal set before us by Jesus of Nazareth.
“We pray that Satan’s efforts will be thwarted, that personal lives can be peaceful and calm, that families can be close and concerned with every member, that wards and stakes, branches and districts can form the great body of Christ, meeting every need, soothing every hurt, healing every wound until the whole world, as Nephi pleaded, will ‘press forward with a steadfastness in Christ, having a perfect brightness of hope, and a love of God and of all men. . . .
“‘My beloved brethren,’ continued Nephi, ‘this is the way; and there is none other way’ (2 Ne. 31:20–21).
“For the entire worldwide Church, for the great body of Saints to the east and to the west, to the north and to the south, we pray that we may be one.”
(“That We May Be One,” Ensign, May 1976, 106.)
